Getting tired of folder contents reverting to Large

[samintx]

I open up folders with files and they are huge, tumbled on top of each other and I constantly have to go to View to rearrange them and the little button to get them smaller. I never had this trouble before I installed ML and L. I'm getting sick of having to have to constantly go thru this.

Is there something I need to click? to keep them from reverting to however my Mac wants them to look in the folder?