Canvas minimized to tiny vertical strip

Apologies if this has been asked already -- tried a search through the forums and couldn't find this referenced.
Over the past two weeks or so, I've noticed that every time I open up FCP, my projects open up just fine, the viewer and the timeline open up with my projects intact, but the canvas for my active project -- which used to open just fine on my second monitor -- is now minimized to a tiny vertical strip on the side of my main monitor, as are all the other projects that appear in the timeline.
Doesn't matter if I save the project again or switch to a different project -- it always re-opens in a tiny sliver on my main monitor ever single time I restart. So, every time I start up FCP, I find myself locating the proper tiny little sliver that represents my current canvas, dragging it to the second window and resizing it. I know there's probably a way to override whatever is causing this to happen. Any advice appreciated.

Downloaded FCP Rescue, and it doesn't run on my system at all -- made sure I have the right version for my install of FCP, too. It just crashes on launch. If all it does is kill the preferences, I suppose I could just delete the proper plist file, right?
Not sure how the View/Arrange is supposed to help -- just looks like that changes how objects appear in the browser...?

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