When saving files, Illustrator defaults back to desktop instead of specific folder.

Whenever I've worked on a file and want to save it to a specific folder (most of the files I work on are saved in folders within folders), Illy keeps defaulting back to the desktop instead of the specific folder. There must be a setting I accidentally activated/deactivated to cause this, but I'm not sure how to change it...!

I'm having the same problem with Illustrator. However, how is it that InDesign seems to have no problem defaulting back to the same folder that Illustrator does not. Also, I can't seem to find any setting to specifically change the default save folder in Illustrator. I don't remember this ever being an issue before today. What's up with that?
OSX 10.9.4
Illustrator 18.0.0
InDesign 10.0.0.70

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Problem Event Name:     BEX64
Application Name:     Photoshop.exe
Application Version:     12.1.0.0
Application Timestamp:     4d90d339
Fault Module Name:     StackHash_60e1
Fault Module Version:     0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp:     00000000
Exception Offset:     000007ff7fe23a20
Exception Code:     c0000005
Exception Data:     0000000000000008
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Locale ID:     1033
Additional Information 1:     60e1
Additional Information 2:     60e1dbb7fe41a65d81ede1e150bfe328
Additional Information 3:     63f7
Additional Information 4:     63f71ec7283e95dfbe0ed5ec6838a62c
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