Sleep and Hibernation may work just fine this way as well maybe even just logging out too because the apps can still be running.
The applications would need to be shutdown when POWERING OFF the system and the application windows deleted from the desktop file because they are no longer running. You may not need to be particular with each off screen location because you wont be able to see them all stacked up anyway. When switching between desktops you would just read the corresponding window and icon locations and restore the x,y locations and task-bar buttons. You can get active window and icon locations, store them in a file, (per virtual desktop) then use whatever you are doing in Roll-up to pull the icons from the task-bar and store that information into the virtual desktop file and then possibly just change the windows and icons x,y locations off screen.
Here is an idea, you may be able to use something from the Roll-up function kinda. I also know that when writing a program, you can specify x,y coordinates for a window to open and with a fat finger that location can be off screen. Anyway, this misbehaving program will keep opening (OFF SCREEN) if that's the last place it was opened when the other monitors were attached and it is really running.
While digging through the Discussions, I ran across the Function Roll ups, didn't know they were there that's pretty cool. Noting some bad behavior from a cheap PDF program that doesn't know how to play nice when the second and third monitors are removed, it may be somewhat easier than you think to implement virtual(or similar) desktops.
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