Finder not remembering settings

Finder has suddenly stopped remembering my display settings.
What can I do?

How are you accessing the Applications folder? It actually makes a difference. Thus, if I double-click my hard drive icon on the Desktop, I get a Finder window in Column view. If I then click on the Applications folder it will open in Column view too, because the view is propagated from the parent window. However, if I click on the Applications icon in the Sidebar, then it opens in its own default of List view. If I make an alias of the Applications folder and put it on the Desktop, and double-click the alias, it opens in List view. Also, if you use the Back button you will get a view from whatever the folder you were in is set to (this is probably a bug). If I access the Applications folder from the Go menu, or with the keyboard shortcut of Command-Shift-a it will open in List view.
The preference for a folder's default state is stored in the invisible .DS_Store file. Occasionally this file becomes corrupt. If that is the case you would need to use Terminal to remove it.
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