The short answer is: stuff stayed where you put it. Every icon, every window, opened up exactly where you left it last time you saw it.<p>So you had the option of remembering &quot;Excel is the icon below the Special menu&quot; and you could be confident that the Excel icon would <i>always</i> be located below the Special menu, exactly where you put it.<p>One of the reasons I switched from OS X to Windows is that Apple threw that brilliant design in the garbage. Shame.