[Love Calm Quiet]

For my purposes, I'd love a couple enhancements for "on-startup" (or log-in):

1) Open app with previously windows/docs. Browsers let you do it. Mail does it by default. Dreamweaver likewise. Finder: mostly. Any simple Terminal-based hacks for apps (at least Cocoa-based ones?) to get them to automatically open with same docs open when last quit - ideally in the same positions (27" screen here)? This would be very handy, as I have several TextEdit docs that I use as uber-post-its for different reminders/notes, which would be nice to have positioned exactly as I left them before.
[additional rant] Why do Adobe developers not teach DW the art of remembering the *positions* of document windows as long as they are remembering which docs were open last time. For extra credit: share any hack to OS routines that DW might be calling that affect this. [/additional rant]

2) Make recalcitrant apps (usually from Apple) obey the "hide when opening at startup" setting. Mail has never played nicely with this: and many times the *last* thing I want to be distracted by upon log-in is email. Now (under Snow Leopard) AddressBook as well *insists* that if set to open-on-startup" it will *not* be hidden.

Hackers of OS X unite! If you've got any workarounds (via a utility or Terminal), please share.

[CharlesS]

Originally Posted by Love Calm Quiet 

2) Make recalcitrant apps (usually from Apple) obey the "hide when opening at startup" setting. Mail has never played nicely with this: and many times the *last* thing I want to be distracted by upon log-in is email. Now (under Snow Leopard) AddressBook as well *insists* that if set to open-on-startup" it will *not* be hidden.

Actually, Mail auto-hide started working for me with one of the 10.6.x updates. I know, I know, but it's true. I immediately checked for signs of the apocalypse, but didn't notice any.

You seem to be right about Address Book, though. You could probably fix that by putting this AppleScript in the login items instead of Address Book itself:

Code:
tell application "Address Book"
	activate
end tell

delay 1

tell application "System Events"
	set visible of process "Address Book" to false
end tell

(you can put in a longer delay instead of "delay 1" if that turns out not to be enough time for Address Book to have fully started up by the time the script tries to hide it)