Finder windows forced all alike?

All right. I generally feel extra-stupid when I have to come here and ask this sort of thing... but here goes.
I use different folders in different ways. This one, I *always* want to open in list view, full screen height but only wide enough for name and date. That one, I *always* want short but wide, in column view, in the bottom left. And so on. EVERY time I open them. And that's how it used to be (mostly). But now I've got Lion... and it pretty much opens new windows in the same layout as the previous one, regardless of how that same folder was arranged the last time I used it and whether or not I checked the "always" box in the View Options. It doesn't even always leave them the same size and shape I'd had them before, much less in the same position. And when it happens to select List View and that's what I wanted, chances are it will not be sorted the same as I'd left it. So, how do I tame this?

Could it be that the windows are somehow transported out of the viewport? Try closing all the windows by pressing ⌘ + ⌥ + W and then opening a new one. If that doesn't help (which most likely it won't) then try trashing the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist file. Hopefully that will solve the issue.

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