Extension panels, when minimized, dissapear when illustrator is reloaded

Example;
1. Open kuler extension
2. Minimize the panel, so it only displays the Kuler Icon & the word "Kuler"
3. Close & Restart Illustrator
Kuler is now gone, it needs to be manually called back again.
The exact same problem occurs with FreegridUI panel (C++ sdk) which is also based on the same Flash ui extension style panel. No doubt there would be a crafty way to fix it via C++, but if this was corrected, either in the SDK or whereever, it would benefit all coders that use these flash ui panels.
My guess is, all extension builder type panels suffer from this problem.
The other (normal) illustrator panels do not suffer from this problem.
If the panel is left maximized upon exit, they will reappear in the same place as the user left it.
argh
Thx

The plot thickens,
When I started Illustrator today, the kuler toolbar was open, with the icon. This is great.I can't really remember what the previous state of the Kuler toolbar/ panel was.
When I push the Kuler icon to expand the panel, it expands out to 5 pixels in width and about 400 px in height. I could resize only Vertically, to make the strip longer.
I had the same experience with my own plugins, where they would expand out to 5px in width and 20 px in height.
As far as a designer is concerned, the plugin I wrote is broken. Getting this right is very difficult when even the supplied plugins do not work correctly. eg. Kuler.
The operating system I'm developing for is MACOSX 10.6.6
It is an extremely difficult bug to reproduce unfortunately.
Plugin development on a mac for illustrator has been a really frustrating experience for the last two years.

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