Photoshop CS4 jpeg quality default

Quality default when saving a jpg picture was always 12/maximum in my CS4. (That was great!) Suddenly it switched to 5/medium for NO reason! And I'm working on hundred of pictures - I really don't want to change it manually each time, but it seems to be impossible to change default settings for that (as long as it does not change just for fun like it did!)
Can someone PLEEEEAAASE help me, before I go completely crazy! It's much too expensive to waste my time like that...
For anyone who can solve my problem: THOUSAND thanks in advance!
Greetings Michael

That would say that if Photoshop was the app that saved a JPEG in the first place, that it must put the quality setting in the file somewhere, so that it will use that as the default the next time.  I suspected it might be doing that (which is why I wrote "I could be wrong" i my first post) but wasn't sure as I have not tried to analyze the default quality setting before.
But I just tested it and this seems to be the algorithm:
1.  If you open a JPEG saved by some other means (e.g., an out-of-camera JPEG or from another app) Photoshop appears to default to the last setting at which you saved any prior JPEG from Photoshop .
2.  If you open a JPEG that was saved by Photoshop, it will read in the quality setting from the EXIF information in that file somewhere and use that as the default for the next File - Save As (and also plain File - Save apparently).
-Noel

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