Organizing finder windows?

[AreYouIn?]

I just moved from Tiger to Snow Leopard when I bought my new computer. Tiger all I had to do was click arrange by date once and it always did it. And if i moved a file from the folder all the other files moved up so there wasn't a blank space where the original file had been.

In Snow Leopard I have to manually tell it to arrange by date each time and in every window. I want all the finder windows this way and I do not want an annoying empty space left when i move a folder.

I know there has got to be something extremely simple I am over looking. Anyone know how to fix my problems?

 

[Gregg2]

click arrange by date

Do that in Show View Options, then click the Use as Defaults button at the bottom. That should do it for all windows.

 

[AreYouIn?]

Do that in Show View Options, then click the Use as Defaults button at the bottom. That should do it for all windows.

Ah! I knew it was something simple I was missing. i didn't even notice the use as default button. Thanks!