Icons do not stay arranged.

No matter how I arrange my icons in the main/first window of my hard drive, when I restart, they always return to this jumbled mess. This only happens on this one window. I already discovered a corrupt plist for another issue and am wondering if there is something corrupt that is controlling this window. This problem existed in OS 10.2 and did not correct once I upgraded to Tiger (I did an archive install).

Open the Terminal application in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and run the following:
sudo chmod 666 /.DS_Store
Type in your administrator password when prompted; nothing will appear in the Terminal while it is being typed, and then quit the Terminal. Rearrange the icons again, and they should now stay arranged. This problem exists because the invisible file which stores this setting doesn't let most accounts save changes to it.
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