Problem with Apple //e boot ... help?

[kellihanb@aol.comDelete (KellihanB)]

Hello,

   I just got a new Apple //e (well to me anyways).  I admit I'm new to Apple
][, so if this is a simple thing, just let me know :-)  
   I plugged everything in and popped in an Apple ][ Desktop disk and it booted
up fine.  (runs on ProDOS 8, dated sometime in August of 1988).  No problem.. 
Well I turn it off.  I turn it back on... problem.
   Never having really used Apple //e hardware I'm a little confused.  It goes
"beep beep" and then I'm in what looks like a machine language monitor.  I
tried a few one letter commands... s doesn't do anything.  l lists a few lines
in hex I think.  The odd thing is turning it off and back on, it remebers what
was on screen before.  Goes "beep beep" and displays a new line and gives an *
for a prompt.. How do I get out of this?  I've turned it back off a while
thinking it might "forget" after sometime, but no effect?  Is there a key
sequence to get out of this?  And what the heck is it?  a Machine language
monitor?  I thought this would go to Basic if no disk was detected... 
  Please note that this is the enhanced version of the //e (or so the keyboard
says..)


Thanks in advance,
Bret