Empty Finder folders don't display correctly in Mountain Lion

Anyone else experienced this or have a solution?
I upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion last night (on a late 2010 MacBook Air). Everything went smoothly. But I have an irritating problem with Finder.
When opening folders (from sidebar icons or from main window icons), if the folder contains documents or subfolders Finder displays the contents of the folder correctly.
However if the folder is empty, Finder displays either the contents of the last folder that I looked at that did contain documents, or a strange jumbled mix of icons. These can be selected, but cannot be deleted, opened, viewed, etc.
So, for example, if I open my Documents folder (which has a lot of things in it), Finder displays the contents correctly.
If I then open my Downloads folder (which is empty), Finder either displays the contents of the Documents folder, or a strange mix of icons.
Any suggestions? The only workaround I've found is to set the empty folders to a different type of view (e.g. the detailed list).

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If I create an empty folder and attempt to open it, the Finder window has the same contents but the title of the empty folder. At some point there is no way to get out of the empty folder (except by opening a new Finder window). If you are outside the empty folder, at some point it cannot be deselected or deleted. (It can be deleted in the Terminal with the rmdir command.) Restarting FInder doesn't seem to help. You can only remove the folder in the Terminal.
If you create a new folder and immediately put something into it, it behaves normally, but if you remove that item from the folder, the weird behavior returns. If an empty folder has ever contained anything, you can't delete it in Terminal because it now contains a .DS_Store file. You can delete that file and then remove the foldler.
If you create an empty folder on the desktop, it will behave as expected. If you move that empty folder to some other place without putting anything into it, it has the weird behavior in the new location.
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