Showing Folders first in Finder sort ???

In almost every other release of OS X there was a tweak to edit the Finder frameworks so that you could have Finder, when sorting by "Kind/Type"you could display folders first. Well of course they broke that in Leopard.
Has anyone discovered a way to reinstate this nice little feature so that folders don't appear at the bottom of the list view but at the TOP like PathFinder?
For those that are curious here WAS the "tweak" (go to System: Library: Frameworks: ApplicationServices.framework: Versions: A: Frameworks: LaunchServices.framework: Versions: A: Resources. Whew. Within that folder, you’ll see the English.lproj folder. Highlight it, and then select File: Get Info. In the Ownership & Permissions area, click on the Details triangle, click on the lock icon, and then click on the Owner pop-up menu and set it to your user name (enter your password if asked). Leave this window open; you’ll be changing it back in just a minute.
Inside the English.lproj folder is a file named Localized.strings. Drag it onto TextEdit. Find the line that reads "Folder" = "Folder"; and insert a space before the F in the second Folder.)
TIA,
Peter

The Launch Services hack doesn't work in Leopard. The string "Folder" has moved to inside the Finder bundle. Here's how to hack it:
Anyway, you can hack things to make this behave how you want. Launch /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app, then type:
cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
sudo chmod 777 InfoPlist.strings
sudo chmod 777 .
open InfoPlist.strings
It should open up in a text editor like TextEdit. Inside it you will find "Folder" = "Folder". Change it to "Folder = " Folder", note the ' ' (space). Save your change. Then Control-Option-Click on the Finder in the sidebar and select "Relaunch". When the Finder comes back up, the Kind string for folders should be what you changed it to in the InfoPlist.strings file (' Folder'), and if you sort by Kind (with the arrow in the kind column header pointing to the top) you'll see Folders sorted at the top.
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