Strange LG Display issue

One of my LG W2361V monitors started dying recently, and LG was wonderful in replacing it with a W2353VP. When I hooked up the new monitor a strange thing happened. When my I wake my Mac Pro from sleep, every window of every program has been moved to the new, main monitor. I usually have iTunes on the right monitor ... after I wake it up, it's on the left. If I'm working in After Effects, after I wake it up, all of the windows that I have defaulted to the right screen are on the left (new) screen.
Does anyone have any suggestions how I can solve this riddle? I would really like my screens to wake up looking like they did when they fell asleep.
Thanks!
++bronson

When I wake up the machine, there is no lag time between monitors. They wake up at the same time. So I'm not sure if that's the answer.
From the point of view of the display card, a full-screen refresh takes about 16.7 milliseconds.
The human eye needs about 1/6 second (166.7 milliseconds) or ten times longer, to recognize that a scene has changed. So the computer could recognize an electrical change (display gone missing) LONG before your eye could.
An interesting experiment would be to swap the HDMI connectors at the displays, and see if the results remain the same. If this seems to "cure" the problem, you can use Displays Preferences to re-assign which display has the Menubar and fix their relative positions in your workspace.

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>CURVEBALL!!!<
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Fortunately the computer's still covered under the extended AppleCare warranty, but I would like to have some idea what's going on before I take it in just in case they're not able to reproduce the issues.
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