What's the "right way" to quit the Finder?

I just had to re-install another CM plug-in that Snow Leopard deleted for me, and I need to restart the Finder before I can use it.
I notice there's no longer a menu item to quit the finder in the Finder's Dock pop-up menu, so now the only way to restart the Finder is to use Force Quit Applications, which says I'll lose all my changes--meaning I'll have to re-open all my windows.
The alternative, of course, would be to quit all my applications and log out or reboot.
This *****. I mean, here we are at 10.6, and they still haven't figured this out? Finder is just an app. Why can't you save your changes and restart it? I can understand that they wouldn't want to make it too easy to unintentionally quit the Finder, but why can't they make it possible?

I played around with an app called "MacPilot" last night. It lets you enable "hidden" preferences in the Finder and a bunch of other apps and some system preferences.
While it does enable the Quit menu item in the Finder, this menu item does just what it says: it quits the Finder. It doesn't restart it. That could be useful under some circumstances, but it could also be risky. As long as the Finder icon is in the Dock, you can launch it from there, but one of the other MacPilot options is to have the Dock show only running apps, so you can create some interesting problems for yourself with this app if you don't think through all the consequences of the options you choose.
Another thing that's a little risky is that, when you enable the Quit menu item, it comes with the Command-Q shortcut enabled by default. This, I feel, makes it a little too easy to quit the Finder inadvertently. I've made the mistake of quitting the wrong application when the window I'm looking at doesn't belong to the frontmost app, but since it's the biggest window on the screen, and the frontmost app might not even have a window open, I end up quitting the wrong app. I think it's also pretty common to hit Command-Q instead of Command-W, since they're right next to each other on US QWERTY keyboards.
On the plus side, there is an option to have the Finder remember its window settings. I selected that, so I'll see if it actually works if I quit or relaunch the Finder using any of these other methods.

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