Illustrator color picker position on dual monitor mac

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Is there a way to control where the color picker appears in illustrator cs5.5 on mac os lion 10.7.3?
I have a mac pro with a monitor and a cintiq, the monitor is the "active" monitor, it has to be for my use, and the cintiq is the secondary monitor.
I have everything set up now so illustrator "lives" on the cintiq, except for the color picker that insist on popping up in the middle of the normal monitor, and if I move it, next time it does not remember I moved it.
Every other dialog I've come across behaves nicely, and sticks to the cintiq, but the color picker dialog does not.
Hopefully someone out there has an answer, thank you very much for your time!
Kind regards,
dukk

Hi Mike,
Thanks for your reply, however I don't want to swap "main" monitor as that causes all other kinds of issues
I only use the cintiq for illustrator, everything else on the main monitor.
So I'm looking for a way to have those last couple of windows follow every other illustrator dialog, such as save etc to the cintiq.
Kind regards,
dukk

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