Space between Finder Window columns

A few days ago, when I upgraded my PowerBook and iMac G5 to 10.4.3, the space between the finder window columns suddenly expanded so that only four columns fit on the desktop instead of 7. It happened on both machines, so it appears not to be related to the hardware. Is this a known problem with 10.4.3? Is that parameter adjustable in Terminal?

I've noticed the same problem after the 10.4.3 upgrade and have been experimenting to see what the changes might have been, my conjecture was they changed some algorithm that was computing the autospacing..
Today after reading the posts on this issue I tried the following experiment. I selected Finder->view -> Show View Options, set the icon size to 16x16 and instead of selecting 10pt font (which was giving me the the large column spacing) I selected 12pt font. This resulted in the narrow column spacing I had previously (of course the icon names are a bit larger but gaining back the close spacing was definitely worth it).

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To achieve my results I right clicked in the upper bar with the column names and chose from the drop down box "comments" column (as suggested). I then dragged it to the far right. This pushed all the other columns over.
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