.net Listview control will only display largeIcon.

Question

I'm using the RC of visual Studio 2010. Writing a .net 3.5 application. When I launch the app, the listview control only shows in LargeIcon view. This is not the view I want. I've set the View property in the designer with no success. I've even tried to explicitly set the view during runtime

lvAvailableItems.View = View.Tile;

Has anyone else had this issue, and if so what was your workaround.

Edit: I've been fighting with this issue as well.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1701740/visual-studio-error-an-item-with-the-same-key-has-already-been-added
I wonder if the two problems are related?