Column view not Icon View?

This is most annoying. Every time I restart or startup my Mac Pro and I open my MacHD, the default Icon view appears. Once I have the MacHD window open, if I click on View/Show View Options I can click off "Always show in iCon View". Then I change the view to Columns and, under View/Show View Options I click on "Always show in column view". This works until I need to restart or shutdown and startup. Then it goes back to the default Icon view.
*How can I get this option to always show the column view after a restart or startup?*

Barbara Daniels1 wrote:
Easy enough to do that (at least in Tiger):
When I first got it, I did click on the HD icon and then proceeded to drag the applications I frequently use, important folders, etc. into the dock. I organized the applications by "type", i.e. all web stuff together (browsers, Mail, etc), word processing, movie making related, photo related, utilities (Onyx, Disk Utility, Super Duper, etc). My important folders (to the right of the dock separator) all have custom icons for easy identification. All in all, I have 63 small icons in the dock (I just counted them!), set to magnify when I mouse over them and I've done it this way for so long that I pretty much know where a particular icon is located.
You might to give it a try - it should work in Leopard?
I use a similar idea. It is called DockFun! It provides me with unlimited number of docks. Each one is categorized like your folders. I still find that sometimes when I save a file or move a file(s) from one place to another and, with my feeble memory, forget where it is or the name I used (more often than I care to admit!) , like to search folders by opening the HD via column view.
Back to the problem - I even tried it in "Safe" mode but I got the same results. Here's another oddity.
The setting on my MacBook Pro, with the same OS 10.5.6, works perfectly. If I set the view to column view it remains in column view. Very Strange!!
*Any friendly geeks out there that can maybe provide me with a Terminal command or two that will do the trick?*

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