Bridge in CS3 resets

Hello all -
When I use Bridge, I flip through the folders, do my thing and then hit the red x to close. When I open Bridge again, it resets everything back to the default layout - not my last looked in folder ... or wherever I was the last time I had it up. I made a new workspace as well - and this also resets.
In another post, I read something about "autoload" and I cannot find this ... to see if this is the culprit or not. Anyone know where I can find this in CS3 or if that's the not the problem - what I can do to fix this? When I was on my iMac (I'm on a Mac Book Pro now), Bridge would pop back open to where I had left off and I didn't know it was a setting - or something I would miss until it was gone!

I have tried every conceivable variation of shutting it down and closing it.
However, nothing seems to help. I cannot find this "auto load" thing in PS and
it sounds like it's different from PC to Mac - me being on the Mac. So if
someone can point to this window and where it's exactly located - I'll check
it out. Right now, going through all the Prefs ... I am not seeing it.
There is only proper way and that is with at least one window open choose
quit (actually 3 ways to quit, Cmd+Q, icon in the Dock and menu Adobe
Bridge/quit,- but you do understand that and they all have the same result).
Having multiple windows open the last used window where you have altered
things will be again showing with same content (not same location in content
window, it starts at the top.
As not having installed CS3 anymore the place for the 'start at login'
option for CS4 and CS5 is in the preferences advanced tab.
It might be in the general tab for CS3 as Curt states but as said, can't
check this but to my recall it was also called 'start at login'. That said,
also check your PS CS3 prefs, might be in there also.
You did not mention if you already have tried to refresh the preferences as
per my earlier post?

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