I have noticed that rather weird behavior, namely of opening a folder and having it display in a manner not of my choosing, over and over again. I set it in icon view, mutz around with other files, sometimes in list, sometimes in column view, and go back to the first folder to find it in some other view.
Very annoying, to say the least.
Did you make
sure to checkmark the "
Always open in _____ view" box, for each of those folders in which you always want that particular view? That feature should work fine in Lion and Snowy (tho Leopard was a bad cat with respect to that feature).
