Seriously, this feature has made me see red and have visions of clock towers since it was first introduced in XP. 

 It would not be bad if it just set the folder type once and then respected my changes, but it is CONSTANTLY resetting my folders to whatever it thinks it should be (if you want to talk about how you can make Vista remember you folder setup, KEEP IT TO YOURSELF - that doesn't work.  It didn't work in XP, and it doesn't work even worse in Vista!  Vista can forget folder settings in a matter of SECONDS)

 If I could just turn off the auto detection, everything would be peachy.  As it is, it drives me freaking insane.  I LIKE "All Items", I have zero ZERO ZERO ZERO use for any of the other settings.  Why?  I don't use the columns it exposes.  If I could choose the columns, then MAYBE, they might be useful, but the columns it picks are of zero use to me.

 I'm old school - I like to see sizes, dates, filetypes.  I could care less what the bitrate or picture dimensions are, I don't care who the author was.  If I want to see those things, I'll turn them on myself (which, in fact, I will NEVER do, since, as stated, I don't care - if I did, it would be in the filename).

 Augh.  Anyways, does anyone know ANY way to turn off this stupid autosensing feature? 

Humm, I guess you could have asked a little more nicely. This is a problem that annoys me too, and not just us both. You can find a whole bunch of people complaining about Explorer resetting the folders view. Below is the the registry entry that disables Vista auto detection feature.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
"FolderType"="NotSpecified"

If you have many folders with strange views you can try resetting them all at once by executing the following registry file.  

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell]
"BagMRU Size"=dword:00004e20

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
"FolderType"="NotSpecified"
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The code above will reset all your folders to All View and disable the auto-detection feature. It will also increase Explorer "memory" so it would take longer to forget your folder customizations (remember that simply changing a column width is already a customization that will take place of another customization you have made). 

Well, so here I leave my two cents on the matter. It would be really nice if shell guys could fix that indeed. ;)