Finder icons re-arranging after pasting file?

I just transferred from snow leopard to mountain lion. I deleted my finder plist and sidebar plist. I have finder set to "arrange by none" and "sort by none". I like to manually place and order file icons.
When I copy and paste more than 2 files into a finder window it re-arranges all of my icons and orders them by name! I also noticed it did this a few times when saving files from photoshop with new file names.
Any ideas?

Specifically, the typical cause for unexpected rearrangement of desktop icons is an adjustment in resolution. For an unsupported video driver, there can be unexpected behavior where the display is not detected correctly and thus displayed at default resolution.
Usually this happens when changing power states, such as restoring from sleep. You may want to look into updated video drivers if they are available.
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