Do the above, then click on organize and then er... it's about half way down "Settings and views" or something (Used to be "Folder Options") go to the "View" page and click "Apply to all folders".
Then every folder you open will be the same unless you hand change it to something else.
While your on the view page, select settings like unchecking "hide file extensions" while your at it, click Apply, then Apply to all folders.
BUT then there is the dreaded automatic folder view "feature" that sees one picture or mp3 and and decides for you how you want to see that entire folder in mp3 or picture view. ARG.
To fix that, go to the root of each of your drives and then select "Optimize this folder for" : "Documents" and apply that to the root and all subfolders.
Sorry about non specific step by step, on an XP machine atm.
After a while or when adding new drives it will revert behavior again and you have to do it all over. I wish I knew of a way to just make it the default for everything always unless I override it on a folder by folder basis. But that's been a problem since Win95 I think :/
