Issue Maintaining Scroll Position in a ListView

I followed the instructions in regards to maintaining the scroll position of a ListView. However, I noticed a difference in the behavior of pressing the "Back" button vs the "Parent Activity" button (the latter exists in the activity's top menu bar). Pressing the "Back" button correctly maintains the position in the ListView. However, pressing the "Parent Activity" button the the ImageViewerActivty seems to generate a new instance of the MainActivty class as the ListAdapter returns null and the adapter is regenerated.

Can someone explain why clicking the "Parent Activity" button behaves like this? I guess one possible explanation is that you could start the ImageViewerActivity class from an activity other than the defined parent activity (definied in the Manifest XML). As such, the app may just start a new parent activity.

I was able to overcome this issues by overriding the "onMenuItemSelected" of the ImageViewerActivity and placing a check to see if the MenuItem ID being selected is android.R.id.home. If it is, I tell the class to finish() and then return true. Otherwise, return the result of the super event. If there's a better way to handle this, please let me know.

I think this could be mentioned in the video or in the notes below it.

Thanks, Travis