One of the features I actually liked about the Vista File Explorer is that it showed the column headers (Name, Date, etc) even when not in Detail mode. So, when in List mode, it was still easy to click the Name or Modified columns to change the sort order. Quick and Easy!
Now, after a lot of reading, I finally figured out how to add my own custom buttons to the toolbar and used the SET command to set the SORTBY property, so I can already do what I want using these (very powerful!!) custom buttons.
But I thought I'd request that the Vista-style header bar be added as a future feature to make it a bit easier to sort by various columns more quickly and easily. In other words, just a simple option like:
"Always show column headers in view"
or something like that. And obviously, if there is already a way to do this that I have missed, let me know. But for now I'm pretty happy with the custom toolbar buttons.