Bridge startup location

I've used bridge for years and not experienced this issue, but leave it to my students to find something. It seems that if student "A" has their images on a say a CD and yanks the CD, when student "B" comes along with their images maybe on a USB flash drive, they get a coded error message when they open bridge. It seems bridge still wants to go to student "A"s CD, and won't let student "B" do anything until they insert a cd - any cd - into the cd drive. Openning bridge through PS still gives an error, but we have the option of inserting a disk or not. Is there a way of setting a default location or state for bridge to open in - say maybe "my computer"? Trying to train students to always back up a level is futile.
Thanks,
Doug

See here:
Olaf Ulrich, "Navigating in Bridge = pain" #3, 18 Mar 2008 8:50 am
With this little trick, you can tell Bridge which folder to open at start-up (instead of the recent folder which isn't there in case of a yanked CD).
-- Olaf

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