Enbling floating won't stick

Every time I start X1, I go to all the BS of moving everything where I want it; pull stuff out of the dock & enable floating etc, then when I close X1 I get an error that it crashed (yes, after it's closed??). Then I open X1 again everything is back to to being in the dock. Is there something I'm missing? How do I get things to Float as my default? Do I have to save the session as a Template now? I didn't used to have to do things that way. HELP PLEASE??