How can I save my finder arrange/sort options once and for all?

I'm opening the Finder View Options panel and resetting the arrange and sort options several times a day and it's driving me nuts. The Finder ignores my desperate pleas to apply these options system-wide and seems to purposely forget the options I chose the day before.
I notice that the Icon view, List view, and even the Cover Flow view in the Finder get a "Use as Defaults" button in the View Options. Those of us in the Column View don't get that button, though. What have we done to deserve this?
I'd like the Finder to now and forevermore open every window with the following options:
Column View
Arrange By > Kind
Sort By > Name
Can anyone help me make this happen? Thanks!

I've found setting the Arrange By to anything other then None gives different results then what I expected.
Select Column View from the Tool bar then open View Options and set Arrange By to None and Sort By to Name.
If you then see the names in reverse alphabetical order click on list in the tool bar then on the Name column header to put them right. in Alphabetical order, then switch back to column view on the Tool bar. you should be good to go from there
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