Folders View Prefs

Some of my thousands of folders have, say... a handful of folders in them or maybe a couple of text files. I want them to be displayed as icons.
Some of my thousands of folders have a lot of items in them. I want them displayed in list view.
Some of my thousands of folders contain huge, deep hierarchies of other folders and files, making column view the appropriate appearance.
Apple's decision to throw out all of my thousands of folders' view prefs and make my compensating with on-the-fly keystroke fixes (-1 through -4) that are ignored on subsequent viewings unless I +opt in+ ...on a +folder by folder basis+ is SOOOOO obnoxious. I want every folder to remember how I left it last time I was in it. Any ideas?
Joel
p.s. -Down goes 'down' into a folder, and -Up goes 'up' one folder. In Tiger, if I held option, it would close the window I was in at the same time. Now, despite claims of the same shortcuts in the help and "always open folders in a new window" set in my Finder prefs, it opens folders in the same window. The Finder is not a web browser; Different contents are best displayed in windows of different sizes, in different locations, with different file views! Any ideas?

Yes, that setting is there but it does NOT work correctly. An example would be setting Folder A to Icon View using that option, then setting another folder within that (call it folder B) to List View using that option.
All is well when either folder is opened directly, but if you open Folder A then open Folder B, and then use the back button to return to Folder A, Folder A will display in Folder B's type of view.
Very frustrating after a pretty smooth upgrade!!

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No, that's not right. Damn. Sorry. What am I doing wrong?
Edit: Ok, got it that time. I wasn't telling it to only apply "View" to the current object.
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When i open a subfolder... its parent is close (the child opens instead of its parent in the same view option of this later) ...
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Is there a way, to open a Sub folder in its view option setting, and the Parent Remains open with its specific view options...
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Is true I could do that. But even that mode is more or less limited to a Launcher like window.
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