Column view and the Grabber bars

I can't seem to find out "why," but when I open windows in column view in Mountain Lion (and this happened in Lion too), "sometimes" the grabber bar at the bottom (used to size/widen a particular column) is there in all windows, and sometimes the column is just a line with no grabber bars. 
When it is a line, I can still size the column by putting my mouse arrow on the line (and the widening arrows appear) and moving it left or right, but I prefer to have the grabber bars at the bottom.
I never know when it is going to change from one way to the other, or how long it will stay the way it is.  Sometimes one of the two ways stays a week or two, or just a few days, then magically just changes up on me.
Anyone  have any clue "why" this keeps changing back and fourth for me?
Thanks in advance
Lou

No idea why this setting would keep changing back and forth for you, but thought I'd chime in after my search to get those little grabber bars to show up at all.
If you haven't already, check the following:
Go to System Preferences, under Personal click the General icon/settings. Under Show scroll bars: choose the Always radio button setting.
My grabber bars had disappeared for reasons I can't explain. So far, after setting Show scroll bars to Always, they've stayed visible.
Until Apple enables a Finder window's ability to ALWAYS/AUTOMATICALLY/DEFAULT to auto-adjust it's column width to "Right Size" to the longest file name WHENEVER a new directory/window is opened or browsed this will be my preferred setting. Since you have to right-click, double click, option-click, again and again and again and again, I like the bigger target.
Good luck.

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