IChat & Restoring In-Progress Chat After Quit

Hi
iChat used to have the ability where if I was in the middle of a chat and I accidentally quit, that chat would be restored when I re-opened it... very handy IMHO...
Sometime in the past this went away for me (SL, maybe? Not Sure)... last night I was messin' around and enabled 'In New Chat Windows, Show Last Chat'...
This seems to be very similar to what I used to see, except that now it literally restores the last chat - even one that I had previously closed...
Did Apple just change this OR is there another option somewhere?
Thanks!
-Justin

Hi,
Apple Changed it.
Saving Chats is needed to be on and it has the new sub option of displaying the Last Chat or a number of Last IMs
Note:- Cycling through these and then back to Last Chat will then display the Last IM Only.
Last Chat will open the last chats the Software can find with the Buddy you highlight in the Buddy List even if this is in a Group chat.
(Similar for Last (x) IMs)
It does seem that if you Quit iChat with a chat open it sometimes (I Repeat - Sometimes) will seem to re-open the Chat that was open at the time iChat was Quit.
Mine appears to work like this but others report they cannot get their's to do this.
I would say that it does seem to depend a little on gaining some History to Saved Chats.
The other thing is I updated from Leopard to Snow Leopard so the .plist may hold the info that the "Remember Last Chat" is to be remembered is still in there.
Obviously if you can't remember who you were talking to last the Recent Items list will show you.
8:09 PM Friday; March 25, 2011
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