Coverflow for every folder!!

With Leopard viewing any folder takes on the last view option - unlike Tiger where each folder keeps it own view setting. So if you chose the coverflow view for one folder, every folder has that view!

You can make specific folder keep its own view setting:

"If you Show View Options (Command-J) for a folder, you'll see a tick box at the top of the inspector that says something along the lines of "Always open in ..." and the current type of view. Ticking that box will set the default for the folder you're currently looking at."

So set your picture and movie folders as coverflow and tick the box. And use icon view for the default for the rest of your folders.