Mail "sort" choice keeps changing

Hello,
I recently installed Snow Leopard and some updates of other applications, but now every time I go into Mail (even if I've only read a message or two), the sort order I've chosen, by "date received") is changed to by "subject." It's really annoying. Any idea about why it's happening and what to do to lock in my choice?
Thanks!

Here's something I've noticed:
1. When I uninstalled Dockstar, all problems went away. There's definitely something going on here.
2. When I reinstalled Dockstar, I am now only having problems with Mail remembering that one of my mailboxes is set to "organize by thread." (I had this problem before in addition to the window resizing). However, the window resizing problem seems to be gone (for today, at least).
Here's what's different:
1. I installed GrowlMail after they updated to a 64bit preference pane. (Not sure how this would impact it, but who knows...)
2. Last time, I just installed the newest copy of Dockstar over the old one. This time, I uninstalled the old one and reinstalled Dockstar cleanly.
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