Folder background color won't stay

Help would definitely be appreciated for this one. It's frustrating. I want the backgrounds of my folders to be different colors, simply for the look, but every time I change the color and leave the folder - I will come back to that folder and it will have a different color applied. Any ideas what's causing this or how to control it?

for my part, i can say : yes. all folders for which the background color is set.
closing and reopening switches color.
switching from "this window" to "all windows" and back also triggers the alternation of colors in the "this window" mode.
steps :
- create folder
- open it
- set icon view
- set color background for "this window"
- close it
- open it again
or, after setting color background:
- switch to "all windows"
- switch to "this window"
...while doing this you may withness another strange behavior: each time the folder window opens, its position is offseted right and down, until it goes back to its intial position and the cycle starts over.

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