10.9.3 finder cover flow doesn't save image size

I went from Snow Leopard 10.6.8 to Mavericks 10.9.3. Everything went ok, but I have one annoying problem though.
Everytime I open a cover flow window in Finder I have to resize the image preview section. The Finder window size is saved,
but not the actual image size of the cover flow. It always goes back to a default, very small, size everytime I reopen the Finder window.
Didn't have this problem in Snow Leopard. It worked great. I just know one other person with the same problem. He just bought his MacBook Pro with Mavericks
and I am on a late 09 MacBook. So it shouldn't be a problem with just my Mac and Mavericks.
So my question is;
Will there be any solution to this soon? Maybe a program update to be released, regarding this issue?
Thank you for any feedback!

Ok, more information for anyone that might care. The wake-up seems to be the familiar dark wake in order to go into hibernate mode. Except now, it's a death wake. Looking at the logs, I see that it happens exactly 70 minutes after sleeping, even though hibernatemode = 0 (which shouldn't hibernate at all!)
So my power settings look like this:
Currently in use:
standbydelay         4200
standby              1
halfdim              1
hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
darkwakes            0
gpuswitch            2
disksleep            10
sleep                10
autopoweroffdelay    14400
hibernatemode        0
autopoweroff         1
ttyskeepawake        1
displaysleep         2
acwake               0
lidwake              1
standbymode is 70 minutes, what a coincidence. I'm going to try setting it to 0 and see what that does.

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