View - details - everything goes away.

Greetings,

When I first went to several of my folders lastnight -
I thought someone had hacked into my harddrive and deleted
a bunch of folders.

After almost getting the FBI involved (no exageration -
as there's only a short list of people who would have done
it)by accident today I discovered the files weren't
deleted - it's just that...

Any folder where I had left the view options as either
large icons, small icons(rarely used by me) or list - the
files show.

Any folder where the view options had been left
on 'details' a grey bar appears below the toolbar, and NO
files show.

And...you can still toggle back and forth - in other
words, select view - large icons - all the files show.

Select view - details - and all the files disappear.

Anyplace in the windows 98 operating system where there
this can be toggled so 'details' works again?

I want to be able to see when the last time any of my
many files were accessed...

Thanks!
Joe