Panels Keep Minimizing Themselves (Ps CS4, Win7)

I'm using Photoshop CS4 on Windows 7 at work and every time I minimize or close Photoshop and then maximize/re-open, my Swatches and Layers panels are minimized.
My workspace is saved, and I've tried resaving it (including panel locations, shortcuts and menus).
If i'm just simply switching programs/windows, it doesn't happen. Its only when the entire program is closed or minimized.
It doesn't make any difference if I have a file open or not.
Screenshots: left is before minimizing, right is after minimizing and maximizing again.
This hasn't always happened. Its jsut been in the last few months, and its driving me nuts. I mean its not like its hard to open them again, but when i'm switching back and forth between other programs and trying to do things quickly, it gets extremely irritating.
It doesn't happen on my colleague's computer, and she has the same version of everything. I've never seen it happen before (before it started doing this).
I have CS5 (and have had CS3 and CS4 in the past) on my Mac at home and its never happened. Although you can't actaully minimize Photoshop on Mac anyway.
Any ideas as to why this is happening or how to fix it?

Oh, I just realized that that option does. Its the panels that I have in the icons that I open and close (down the left side, I have my type and paragraph panels, history, etc.). If you minimize Photoshop when one of those are open it closes it when you bring Ps back up again. I wasn't concerned about those ones so I didn't test it at the time. I was concerned abotu the fact that it didn't make any difference to the swatches and layers.
Only thing its doing now is just making the swatches window taller, making the layers shorter, which I can live with, becuase its all still on my screen. I'm sure there's a way to fix that too though.
I've just got too much work to do and not enough time to figure out how to fix all the tiny issues within my working hours.

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