Doh! That's correct. I mistakenly thought this was a different topic.

Anderton
Ever notice that we get a thread like this about once a month? I'm going to send a note to Noel and ask him to consider changing the default setting going forward.

Actually I did a search for this very topic just now.  I knew that I had read it somewhere and noticed this happening today.  So used the search to find it.  I will make the adjustment tomorrow in Platinum.  I never noticed it in X3e...so I'm thinking that I may have changed the setting some time ago in X3.

It may have been reset at install time.