I've noticed that sometimes the columns in dired become misaligned.
I think it is because the sort (dired-sort-toggle-or-edit) indents
everything by four spaces instead of the normal two spaces.
Eg:
Dired listing after 'g' (revert-buffer)
  c:/PROGRA~1/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/dired:
  total 1016
  drwxrwxrwx   2 jmincy   0               0 Feb 04 18:09 .
  drwxrwxrwx   2 jmincy   0               0 Feb 04 18:09 ..
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 jmincy   0              75 Jun 20 15:57 _pkg.el
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 jmincy   0           23700 Jun 20 15:57 auto-autoloads.el
  ...
Dired listing after 's' (dired-sort-toggle-or-edit)
Every line indents out two more spaces.
  c:/PROGRA~1/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/dired:
    total 1016
    drwxrwxrwx   2 jmincy   0               0 Feb 04 18:09 ..
    drwxrwxrwx   2 jmincy   0               0 Feb 04 18:09 .
    -rw-rw-rw-   1 jmincy   0              75 Jun 20 15:57 _pkg.el
    -rw-rw-rw-   1 jmincy   0           23700 Jun 20 15:57 auto-autoloads.el
    ...
-jeff