Folder Thumbnails and View Settings Not Consisitent & Lost

Hi all,

I find this very annoying and a big problem:

I have lots of family photos organized in many folders. Each folder, in
thumbnail view, is customized to have a certain picture to represent it and
it is set as a Photo album. Whenever I copy the whole Pictures folder to
someone, or even if I just move the whole folder to another location, my
settings get lost, that is, the thumbnail photo is gone and folder view is
Documennts now. Then I have to reset each individual folder, which is almost
impossible now because I have about 300 folders. I tried to copy Thumbs.db
system file on together with the folders but that didn't work either. Would
you know of any fix for this please as I would like to give people the
folder the same way I have it customized, or to be able to move it on
another harddrive with all the settings remembered?

Hope you can help,

Thanks a lot and sorry for trouble

Igor