Finder Issue - Folders in reverse descending order

When Finder is open, and I select the Documents tab, I see, on the right, my folders and can open those folders to see the files within. Here, the files are alphabetically arranged from A through Z, in descending order (A at the top, and Z at the bottom).
However, when I double-click a folder to open it, the order of files is reversed and the alphabetizing becomes inverse - with A at the bottom and Z at the top.
How do I change this ordering to reflect a descending order?
Thank you,
Jay

I also have this problem, and the work around works for me, but...
This has got to be a bug, right?  There is nothing, anywhere that I can see, that controls whether it is alpha ascending or alpha descending.  The "fix", such as it is, is to ignore the Arrange By menu and use the column headers to select the sort order. 
In fact, to bulletproof it (because I will forget eventually) the best solution would be to remove the "arrange" menu altogether because it does not do anything that sorting by column headers does not do.  In fact, it does less.  In even more fact, it does worse than less. 
Apple is keenly persuing minimalism.  So why does the arrange menu exist?  And if it does exist, why did no-one test that it works rationally?
The corollary of all this is that the Arrange By menu does the same thing as clicking the menu headers, but when you use it, it disables them. 
I have been banging my head on my desk since I bought my new machine with Mt Lion on it about the wretched headers not setting the sort order and it is because some - numbskull is not the _only_ word that comes to mind - has decided one selection mechanism for the sort function should disable the other. ¿Eh?

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