remember the column widths that I've made narrower (or wider). Today they're not even remembered during a sessions - ie if a do a search, make the columns narrower (because there width is for the column heading and not the data) to see more columns, then click search again, the column widths that I've set are not remembered and I have to make them narrower again.

To remember the column widths with the search would be idea - then I would have to set column widths only once.