Workspace issue when hitting Manage from Edit

[JoeB]

When opening an image to work on I always promote the background layer as well as duplicate it before I start any editing. So I created a bound script so as to have those 2 steps performed with one click. I placed that script button as the first item on the bottom toolbar of my Layers palette (the toolbar with the buttons to create various types of layers and which also has the delete trashcan). I also removed the button that opened General Program Preferences that was at the far right of that toolbar because I don't use it and it took up space. I saved the workspace, closed PSP, and when I re-opened PSP all was good and my bound script was in place and the Preferences button gone.

Using the organizer at the bottom of my Edit workplace (I default to open PSP in Edit), I opened one image by dragging from the organizer, ran the script, opened a second one by double-clicking, ran the script, and all was well again.

Then I clicked the Manage tab to try opening an image from there. As soon as I clicked that tab (and before the program had left the Edit workplace) I lost my bound script from the Layers palette toolbar and the Preferences button had returned. In other words, either clicking the Manage tab caused the Layers palette to return to its default look, or clicking the Manage tab caused PSP to return to my other saved workspace, being the one I had used before making those changes to the Layers palette and saving those changes as another workspace name.

Can anybody help me with a way to stop this strange behavior? TIA!

[JoeB]

REPLYING TO MY OWN ORIGINAL POST ABOVE:

I seem to have found a workaround for the issue I brought up. Based on the fact that I had posted a similar issue switching from Edit to Manage and back when I had customized other toolbars some days ago, I experimented.

After opening PSP in my usual Edit mode, and with my new customized Layers toolbar in place, I went to Preferences and changed the default open to Manage instead of Edit, then closed the program. Then I opened it again and it opened in the Manage tab as expected. I selected an image and hit the Edit tab, and lo and behold my customized layers toolbar was still in place!

Then I changed Preferences again to Edit, closed the program, opened again and it opened in Edit mode with the customized Layers toolbar. Then I hit the Manage tab and the toolbar stayed in place, and was still in place when I selected an image in Manage then hit Edit.

MY CONCLUSION: This will sound weird, I know, but all I can come up with at the moment. In my installation of PSPX7, at least, I have come to the conclusion that the Manage workplace has to be "taught" what new or revised toolbars I might be using in Edit. In other words, if I customize and use a toolbar in Edit and use it, and while in Edit I hit the Manage tab, the Manage workspace seems to want to use the last toolbar that Edit was using the last time Manage was the default open workspace. It has to be "taught" that there is a different workspace in Edit, and it only learns that by first making Manage default to open the next time PSP is opened. Then it seems to realize the new workspace that Edit is using and will return your selected images to Edit in that workspace.

Like I said, seems weird but it also solved my initial similar issue last week, and it worked again today. Feel free to chime in if you have a better (or even weirder!) explanation. PSP Zombies, anyone?