Can Frame remember size and position of window when it is reopened?

When I re-open the chapters in a book, I want each to open with the same size and position it had when it closed. Frame seems to randomly pick a size and location for each window. In a big book, I can end up with chapters strewn all over. Some are huge, some are small, and they overlap each other.
An exception is chapters that were minimized the last time they were saved, in which case they re-open minimized, which is good behavior.
Any way to tell Frame to remember where the window was last time I was using it?
I'm using FrameMaker 8.0p277, unstructured.

FWIW, I keep the .book file open on the side of the screen and use it to select a chapter to work on. The other chapters are kept minimized. I've found that this is the most efficient way to work and I can bounce between chapters quickly. So I guess I'm using the .book file like the "list of all open files" you mention.
In FM 8, you can see a list of all open files by clicking Windows>More Windows. That shows a list of everything. The biggest problem with that is that it's not in any order that I can discern. If it were in alphabetical order or in the same order as the chapters of my book, it would be more useful.
When I double-click on the name of a chapter, it opens in what seems to be almost a random size and position, which is the cause of my original post.
Thanks,
Cheryl

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