Smart mailboxes don't honor sort selection

Every regular mailbox remembers it's sort state from the last time the application was opened, but all of my smart mailboxes reset to subject (descending) sort. It's so irritating to have to change this for every smart mailbox every time I open Mail. I couldn't find anyone else complaining about this, so I'm wondering if it's only affecting me. Can anyone please confirm?
TIA,
- Dave

I do use Mobile Me syncing. Here is the plist which references the sortorder.
<key>MailboxUserInfo</key>
<dict>
<key>DisplayInThreadedMode</key>
<string>no</string>
<key>SearchSortDescending</key>
<string>YES</string>
<key>SearchSortOrder</key>
<string>rank</string>
<key>SortOrder</key>
<string>received-date</string>
<key>SortedDescending</key>
<string>YES</string
I also have a VersionedSmartMailbox.plist:
i<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>globalDisplaySortOrder</key>
<array>
<string>554F9CE8-5242-45E9-8C29-6D12F7159834</string>
</array>
<key>version</key>
<integer>3900</integer>
<key>versionedMailboxes</key>
<array/>
</dict>
</plist>
Hope that helps!
Edit: I changed the string contents... don't know what info this presents.
Message was edited by: captfred

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