Make folders all be organized the same way?

I want to set my files to be organized a certain way in every folder on my system...how can I do that under Leopard? When I open up folders, the files are just all over the place

You just click on the column header (Name, Date Modified, Size, etc..) and it'll sort it ascending, descending, etc.. on which you click on. To see more column options, hold applekey-J and check what you want in Show Columns.

in the folder hit command+J then then you can choose things like grid spacing, and how they are arranged.