Outliner problems

I really like using the outliner, which I use even more than the corkboard to arrange my material.
However, despite having checked “save outliner and corkboard settings” in the layout manager, I find that every time I come back to my work, the outliner columns have either disappeared off the right of the screen or have disappeared altogether. I’m aware that this is a known issue, but is there anything else I should be doing? Thanks.