IChat window moves

This is a minor annoyance but still bugging me... I keep my iChat windows in a certain part of my screen, which has always worked fine: new message pops up in the corner, and that's where I do my chatting. However, since upgrading to Lion, it insists on moving the new windows to a different location.
Movie example here: http://fishbucket.com/movies/ichat-window-moves.mov
Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas?

Hi,
I can explain this in terms of Leopard and Snow Leopard which may explain some of this.
With Incoming Invites these windows always pop up in prescribed places.
Text Chats, as you say is Top Right
Audio ones are fraction below this
Video Chat Invite are always Top Centre.
With all the Chats, the actual window for the chat will tend to Stay in that place.
Outgoing ones are different.
Double Clicking a Buddy to launch a Text chat will move the window to where the Last outgoing Chat Window was.
This may be different if you had two or three different text Chat going on and only one was an outgoing one.
The same applies to Audio Only and Video Chat Windows.
Now for Chat on computers that have the Camera at the top of the screen it makes some sense as then your eye line is at least somewhat directed towards the camera
The behaviour may be different in Lion, as in different places.
However they may have finally linked all Chat Windows to be remembered as to Last positions and to that end iChat has somewhat "Learnt" since you first started using iChat 6.
You may find that these may move when you close the app with a window still open that is in a different place to where you normally have it.
You may have enough info now to prove or disprove this or at least test what it will do.
10:11 PM Saturday; August 6, 2011
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