Focus and finder

[yvonne thomson]

Hi, all.

I don't know if this has been discussed before, and I certainly can't  
find it in the archives, but I've got a question about the finder.

Here's the story. I'm sorting out my incoming directory. It's got  
downloaded files, random text snippets, that kind of thing. I need to  
delete some, move others, you know the drill. The problem is, it  
seems that in list mode or column mode, whenever I hit cmd-delete to  
send things to the trash, I get zapped to the top of the folder I'm  
in, rather than staying where I was when I deleted the file. I have  
the usual, all cursors tracking each other setup. So, can anyone  
explain to me *why* this happens? I'm presuming it's os x thing  
rather than a VO thing, but I haven't been using it long enough to be  
sure. As for Icon mode, I don't use it much, and testing it now, I  
have absolutely no idea *what* it's doing in that case.