Sort by Name in style palettes (INDD CS3)

Every time I add new styles to the Paragraph, Character, or Object styles palettes, I have to manually re-set the display to 'Sort by Name'. This was never necessary in CS2. Is there any way to set this as a default in CS3?

It would be fine to have them be unsorted by default as long as there was a way to sticky toggle sorting on for those that prefer to work the old way. IMHO, the new folder system is something of an accident waiting to happen too if you don't set up for it from the very beginning.
- Each folder is independent of every other folder or the top level, meaning you can have an "H1" head style in each folder and all of them be defined differently.
- If you started with a flat hierarchy from CS2 imported into CS3, you can rapidly get your CS3 working documents into a hozed state if you aren't aware of the first point. If you organize your styles into folders, but then open an old CS2 document again and copy stuff across from it, CS3 will see that the old style(s) associated with whatever you copy don't exist at the top level (eg you copied them all into the Chapter Opener sub-folder) and it will then re-import the styles back into the top level again, which means that you now have your original CS3 stuff linked to a style in a subfolder and the stuff you just copied in linked to a similar style at the top level.
Until you do some clean-up and figure out which style is supposed to replace over which, you can no longer rely on all your styled text being the same or on all your styled text changing when you change a style.
- IIRC, there is no easy way to flatten the hierarchy, such that you can tell if you have duplicate names in various subfolders, which means that it's fairly incompatible with export to INX back to CS2. (I have a vague recollection of doing this experiment, but I could be wrong on this point.)

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