Finder Window vs. File Dialog Date Sort Reversal

After switching to 10.4 I noticed that all of a sudden the file dialog's sort by date icon convention was reversed (and reversed from that found in the Finder).
What I mean is, the little triangle that determines whether you are sorting in ascending or descending order is upside down with respect to its function, but only in file dialogs.
Convention dictates that when sorting by date, showing the triangle with the point facing down puts the newest items on top. I am not sure if that is descending or ascending. I never could sort out that language. Anyhow, the Finder obeys this convention, but my file dialogs do not. Here are two images that illustrate the problem:
Finder (correct):
File Dialog (incorrect):
Anyone know what's wrong here?
PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphics) Mac OS X (10.4.3) Sonnet 1.25GHz processor upgrade card

Interesting. Looks like it's a bug specific to Navigation Services, which Carbon applications like FireFox use for Open and Save panels.
While they are made to look and function as similar as possible, the Finder, NavigationServices, and NSOpenPanel/NSSavePanel are all different things. As I mentioned, Navigation Services is what Carbon applications use, while Cocoa applications use NSOpenPanel and NSSavePanel. The apps that Michael tested are Cocoa apps which don't appear to have the problem.
I'll file a bug on it when I get a chance.
Dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5 w/ 2.5 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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