Mail - irritating display quirk

I've just moved to Mail from Entourage v.X for Mac. No major problems so far, but an annoying display quirk which I'm hoping someone can help me to resolve.
I am using Mail to send and receive via two POP accounts, hence I like to have the information displayed in Mail as follows:
In the In mailbox, I like the columns to be in the order:
Attachment - From - Subject - Date Received - To
Whereas in the Sent mailbox, I like the columns to be in the order:
Attachment - To - Subject - Date Sent - From
The trouble is, when I put the columns in the order I want them in the Sent mailbox, they rearrange themselves in the In mailbox as well.
It's a small thing, I know, but it's driving me nuts! In Entourage the column displays in the mailboxes are completely independent of each other - but in Mail it seems that you change the display for one and it changes them all.
Is there any way round this?
20" iMac Core 2 Duo   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   2.33 GHz, 3Gb RAM

No. Mail stores column view settings globally for all mailboxes. You cannot change them for one mailbox without affecting the rest as well, except Mail allows you to have slightly different From/To and Date Sent/Date Received settings for Sent, i.e. show one instead of the other, but not the kind of difference you want.

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