Help, my views got messed up and "folder options" is now restricted

I have no idea what has happened here, I think vista somehow messed
something up when I connected to a file share, but even that seems odd
since I've been doing this for 6 months. I'm using Windows 98SE and
have files shares on a LAN to a Vista 64 Home Premium machine.


I can't choose "folder options" in the My Documents folder or any
random subfolder. When I try to do so, I get a message "This operation
has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer.
Please contact your system administrator".

I _AM_ the administrator, and there is only one account on this
computer, the administrator account that logs in automatically. I
didn't want multiple users and set things up that way. I am not
concerned about security from the console, I want accessibility.

Anyways, I can get the folder options dialog box to come up from Start-
settings-folder options, but the "remember each folder's view
settings" does NOT work. Worse, in despartion I tried resetting my
folder's views. Now I can't get the My Documents to stay in details
view sorted by type. That's what I want the default view to be. Using
the control panel to get into it, I the option of "like this folder"
for setting defaults is dimmed.

So, what could be restricting my access to folder options, and how do
I fix it? I'm not part of a domain, there should be no group policy. I
don't have a group policy editor. I'm the admin, but don't have a clue
how to fix this problem.