Messages not remembering screen position

This has happened a few times now--email messages don't "remember" where to open on the screen. No combination of re-positioning, quitting, re-starting, and re-opening solves the problem. In the past, the problem just vanished as inexplicably as it appeared, but it's going on day 2 now and is really annoying. Anyone know a solution? Maybe trashing a plist file?

Still a problem in day 4. Has anybody else experienced this?

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