Remembering last saved location

I just upgrading to Mountain Lion on my work computer. For the past four years I've been using Snow Leopard and have become pretty used to it.
My problem is that applications do not remember where I last saved a file. More specifically in acrobat. I'll open a PDF in Acrobat and "SAVE AS" navigate to a folder on my mac and save it. I will download another PDF (using Safari) open it and "SAVE AS" ... this is where 10.6 differs from 10.8. The save as window will be in the downloads folder instead of the folder I previously navigated and saved the last PDF file.
Hopefully this makes sense. Let me know if you have any ideas.
Steve.
SPECS:
MacBook Pro 6,2
OS X 10.8.5
Safari 6.2
Acrobat Pro 9.5.5

Hi strace,
Safari in Mountain Lion defaults to saving to the Downloads folder, but you can choose a different folder if you'd like.
Safari 6 (OS X Mountain Lion): General preferences
Save downloaded files to
Choose a folder or other location for items you download.
Take care,
Nubz

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