Why won't Mountain Lion reopen my full screen apps in the same order I had them?

When I am on my MacBook Pro, I usually want my full-screen applications in the same order (i.e. iTunes on the far right, then Mail, then Safari on the far left). Whenever I shut down and later turn it back on, the apps are in a differenct order. Is there a way to make them reopen in the same way that I had them?
I had the same problem on Lion, though I am currently running Mountaion Lion.

Looks like I found the solution off in another thead:
"If you open your smart playlists and set "limit to" you can choose how you want your songs or podcasts to be sorted, including the ways they were sorted before. You should only have to fix each playlist once then forget about it."
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2157432?threadID=2157432&tstart=15
Did this and it works how I want it to now. The order is least recently added. Serves me right for not checking just 'one more thread' on this. Not the best execution since the playlist can be sorted via the iTunes UI anyway, but at least this way it makes it onto the device.

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