Lion closes all previously open desktop windows on startup

I cannot figure out why Lion closes all of my open desktop windowas on shoutdown/restart, or how to prevent it. Can anyone help?

Right. It works as advertised.
What I am talking about are my open desktop windows. The finder is closing all open (folder) windows each time I restart or shut down my machines.

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