OS X Lion loses multiple display settings - VERY annoying

Hi guys,
I have two 27" Cinemadisplays connected to a 2011 Mac Mini running OS X Lion 10.7.2.
One display is connected through Thunderbolt to the back of the Mac Mini (this is the display right in front of me) and another display is chained to the first displayed, through Thunderbolt again (this other display is at a slight angle sitting to my right hand side). I have multiple desktops and usually put various programs on different desktops on different monitors.
A lot of the times when I shut down OS X Lion and for instance, next day, start OS X again, the login screen appears on the second monitor (sitting to my right side) and from that point on after log in, all my programs get messed up and get displayed on the second monitor instead of how I left them when I shut down the computer. So every time I boot up, I have to go through the whole process of setting up all my workspaces and desktops and apps again on multiple monitors just to lose those settings next time I boot the computer up. It's SUPER annoying.
I have seen similar issues posted by different people online but no official answer has been provided. So in a nutshell, OS X Lion loses the settings of which montior is my primary monitor upon restart/shutdown. Any solutions on how to fix this issue? You would think lovely folks at Apple should have already tested Lion on multiple Cinemadisplays through Thunderbolt but it turns out they haven't :-(
Regards and thanks in advance for any suggestions

UPDATE: I installed and ran the freeware OnyX utility and my situation is (so far) looking better.
Actions that I took were
Verify and Repair disk permissions (which I had done many times before so don't think that was it)
Executed the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly mac maintenance scripts (I shutdown my mac after every use so it had been several months since the "monthly" script was run); I'm thinking this had something to with fixing things - now that I know about this, I'll plan to check more frequently.
Rebuild Launch Services and dyld's shared cache (thought it couldn't hurt)
Deleted the pre-selected cache items under System and User Cache (same as above)
Deleted the pre-selected log files (just to free up space)
I have done several reboots and the monitor settings are still looking good PLUS the machine is booting and shutting down much faster. Time will tell, but I think this may have nailed it.

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