Incorrect sort order in File Open/Save dialogues

Hi all,

this is driving me nuts. For the past few weeks, my WinXP system

insists on showing all Open/Save dialogs (for non-Office apps) in

reverse sort order, i.e. List mode, files first (instead of folders)

and descending alphabetical order.

I've already seen a number of proposed solutions in the newsgroups,

including this:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_opensaveorder.htm

and this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/229070

but neither helps - the default sort order remains wrong.

Any other ideas?

TIA,

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Kristofer