Illustrator CS4 Swatch Palette Issues

It seems as though the same issues that came with CS3 are now haunting me in CS4. Every time I close Illustrator my pantone swatch library disappears. This is causing a major issue being that every time I restart, close Illustrator or do an update my pantone colors vanish. Not very good for production or turn around time being that I have to do the following steps on every start: re-select the pantone color book/solid coated matte/turn on small list view/redock in swatch library palette/turn on persistent. I am wondering why Adobe would not have double checked this issue, being that there are many issues mentioned like this with CS3. Anyone else experiencing this, or know of a way to fix it? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!!

That's funny it doesn't happen here and don' get this wrong but it seems odd that you have been working with CS 4 all this time and never brought this issue up before.
Of course you could be on windows and it could be a platform specific issue though it seems odd that all this time has passed and it is the first we are hearing about it.
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