Firefix opens with the window as big as my monitor

About half of the time, when I open a new Firefox window, the window is as big as my monitor. It is not maximized, just as big as the monitor.
I have a wide screen monitor, and normally have the Firefox windows around 60% of the width of the screen. It normally open up with the regular size, but lately it has been opening up way too big.
I use Firefox 3.6.8 on Windows 7 x64.
Windows is running in a virtual machine under VMWare Fusion 3.1.1 on my Mac.

Window sizes and positions are stored in [http://kb.mozillazine.org/localstore.rdf localstore.rdf] in the [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Profile Folder].
Delete localstore.rdf or rename the file to localstore.rdf.sav in the [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Profile Folder] to test if the file is corrupted.
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf<br />
(caution: do not delete the localstore.rdf file in the Firefox program installation folder)

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