Lion forgetting display arrangement

Hi guys,
Hopefully someone can sprinkle me with their wisdom.
I have my macbook plugged into an external display, which is slightly higher up. As such, I have a staggered display arrangement (in Sysprefs) to mirror what's happening in real life. This has never been in a problem before, but recently (within the last week or so) it keeps forgetting this arrangement when the display is unplugged and reattached.
Only things I've done recently is an OS update and something where I deleted a prefs file because iTunes kept constantly asking for firewall permissions even when I'd already set it (which fixed the problem. Obviously if the former caused the issue then Apple have something to answer for, whereas if it's the latter I might imagine that same prefs file had something to do with screen arrangements too. Other than that, I have no clue what the problem is.
Any help, much appreciated!
Cheeeers!

did we get solution for this issue, even im facing this issue from past few weeks but not getting the answer

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