Saving A Default Flight In Fsx

Hi All:I set up my default flight after selecting "views/instrument panel/main panel/normal" for the normal view of the Cessna 172 panel and save it. Then I close fsx. Then when I start fsx again my opening screen is a small (I guess 3-D) partial panel at the bottom part of the screen and the "views . . ." screen has changed to "views/instrument panel/main panel/off". It keeps doing this over and over again.Does anybody have any idea as to why this keeps happening? . . . Steve K. (ifrevets)