On a fresh install of 85 on a fresh hard drive with a clean install of 10.4.2, the option to display status window when away is not sticking between launches of the program
Yeah I think its a bug. It happens to me and I think there was a post about this before and a dev said it was a bug. I'm not sure when they are going to fix it. (If in fact Im right and it is a bug) Don't worry I don't think its your computer.