The File/Open settings

Hi there,
The default appearance of my File/Open and File/Save window has changed, and I neither know how nor do I know how to change it back.
The problem is that when I File/Save, it would open the File/Save window and display the folders/files by in a List (vs Thumbnail, Detail, etc.) by Name, which is what I desire.
But, somehow that changed. When I open the File/Save (or File/Open) window, the display is now in a List (which is prefered) by Date with the most recent at the top. This is definitely not my preference and is a setback to certain tasks I do.
I reset my defaults by doing alt-ctrl-shift upon start-up, but that has not affected my File/Save-File/Open window.
Can anyone tell me how to get back to where I was before? I am somewhat desparate for this fix and have no idea how it changed. So, heck, if anyone knows certain keystrokes I might have inadverdently hit that affected the change in the first place, I'd love to know what they are do I don't duplicate them!
I am on Photoshop CS3.
Thanks! I appreciate your help!

Thanks for the reply! It turned out that "Version Cue" was enabled, so I disabled it. However, the same problem still occurs. My "File/Open" does not open sorted by name. And my "File/Save As" functions also are not sorted as they had been in the past. I think they are sorting by type, not name. I simply want to find the place that tells Photoshop what the default sort should be.
It has always been unclear to me how Photoshop decides what view to give me when I want to open or save a file. Sometimes it opens to a view that I was just saving to or opening from, and sometimes it goes back to My Pictures.
And I erred before. I have Photoshop CS2, not CS3.
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