Icons in finder won't arrange in a grid

[kmj2318]

Hi, I'm using Leopard and just reformatted my macbook. Whenever I drop an icon into the finder window the icon get placed wherever I drop it instead of being placed alphabetically. I can go to view>clean up, and it fixes it but I want it to go back to where it always just did it.

Also, the icons do not increase or decrease columns when I make the finder window larger or smaller, it just always stays at 3 columns.

Thanks.

 

[MattJessop]

All you need to do is go to Edit>Show View Options. Then where it says Arrange By: All you need to do is change to Grid View, and then at the bottom 'Use as defaults'

Hope this helps.