Outlook: Malice

In direct contrast to the title of this blog, I do assume that Microsoft Office applications are specifically designed to make my life miserable.

I assume this because:
a) I have several friends who actually work on MS Office. They have not yet shown a tendency to this kind of prank, but that only means they are devious.
b) The behaviour is just too bizare to be a bug.

Two days ago, Outlook decided that it should group my mailbox by flag status. I have been unable to change it's mind. Whenever I open any mailbox, it is sorted by flag. I click on the date column, and it sorts by date. Then the next time I navigate away from the folder and back to it, we're back to being grouped by flag. It's maddening!