[pyn]

i keep my finders with icon-only sidebars at 32x32...see here. it stays this way in all my window that I click through the finder icon in the dock and drive icons from the desktop, but whenever i download a folder or make a new folder it keeps turning back to this with the full sidebar and the bottom of sidebar a few pixels off. nomatter how much i keep resizing the sidebar and window, it keeps going back to that on the desktop... i remeber it used to be fine, but now it just annoys the crap out of me.

[Chuckit]

Sorry for your trouble. That is, unfortunately, just how it is.

[JKT]

Close all Finder windows and then open a new one. Make sure you don't click the contents at all. Set up the window as you would like it to be whenever you open a new one (but don't click the contents) and then close it. All new windows will now open in this layout. Downloads are a different matter altogether as it seems to depend on how the person who created the download had there window set up.