Finder closes everytime I eject a flash drive

Hi,
I like to leave Finder open on my desktop. Every time I eject a flash drive Finder is closing. I cannot find anything to change in Finder preferences to stop this. Any ideas appreciated.

Is the Finder window displaying the contents of the flash drive? If so, ejecting it will close the window.
Steve

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eep

Folks:
Looking for some thoughts or ideas on why the entire system would "quit"--perhaps due to ejecting a flash drive? That seems more serious than an addressless addressbook, although when needing an address, one might hope to find it in Addressbook, right? In Panther applications would "quit" just because it felt like it--but not the whole system. Is this "normal" now, routine?
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Thank you for your post on the hp.com forums regarding safely ejecting your USB flash drive. In our printers, to remove your USB flash drive, all you need to do is - remove the flash drive. There is really no other method needed. You will not harm the flash drive, printer or files.
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Hatchback Mustang wrote:
Ok, so I don't have any of my icons locked because I like moving them around in a fashion that tends to group them together as well as non-nonsensical organization of ones that I use the most, favorite or whatever.
So I will organize the folder really nicely, and then close the folder and actually eject the flash drive from the macbook. Then when I go to insert the flash drive again, everything is back to the way it was. How do I fix this?
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i Bought My Macbook Pro 2 Days Ago And This Is The First Time That I'm Using A Mac.
today i tried to make a backup of my Mac Os and i thought maybe i could use my flash drive , so i connected it and i opened the TM and it asked me that it should erase my flash drive so it can back up the files on it , but after doing all that stuff i found out that my flash's capacity is not enough for a complete backup, but now i cant use it like i used to, and it doesn't show up on my windows ... now how can i make it work normal ?!

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