Disk Utility - New Bundled SparseDisk volumes cannot change view

Running SL 10.6.1 on a early 2009 Mini.
Through Disk Utility, I created a new Sparse Bundled Disk Image with 256bit encryption. That is no problem, except I cannot customize the view of the mounted image. The default is icon view, with no toolbar at the top of the window. I want to have the regular array of toolbar icons at the top of the image and view it in column mode, but when I manually change this, it doesn't apply to the mounted disk image window.
Older disk images I created in other OS versions mount and display just fine, but I cannot figure out why this is a problem in SL.
Any thoughts or fix suggestions? Greatly appreciated!

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