If you want a drive to remember it's drive letter designation then do 2 things:
Give it a letter at least two letters away from the last drive on any of the machines it's used on
Give the drive a Volume name...
I won't know the drive letters of remote machines, it's possible that Q: has already been allocated, another hurdle to jump when the current problem is sorted. The drive allocations for the machine I'm testing on can be seen on the images.
The flash drive already has the label
Kingston as shown in the second image I posted.
What I want to solve right now is how to get rid of the redundant icon in My Comp when the flash drive is disconnected.
Thanks.