Comment 17 for bug 770307

Sorry for the double post, but I experienced the issue again and I figured my workaround might be useful to someone out there:

- I regularly dock and undock my laptop...so it regularly goes from using dual screens to using the laptops monitor.
- When I booted back up at home, undocked, my prefs.xml went back to:

<search_window_x_pos>-32000</search_window_x_pos>
<search_window_y_pos>-32000</search_window_y_pos>

- As a workaround, I picked an x and y location that works for both my dual monitor setup, and my laptop monitor, and then I made the prefs.xml read-only (on a Windows 7 machine, right click on the prefs.xml file, click Properties, check the "Read-only" box, and then click "Apply").

Note: The ramifications of this workaround (I would think) are that I can no longer make changes to my preferences. If I want changes to take effect, I would have to deselect the Read-only box, and then proceed to make those changes.