OK, I installed FC6 fresh, and copied a lot of stuff over. On MY box nautilus has a "side pane", marvelously useful. My pal also on FC6, has NO side panel, and his choices in the "view" menu are quite limited. I tried to fix this, and failed miserably. I have the following nautilus stuff installed:
nautilus-2.16.2-5.fc6
nautilus-sendto-0.7-5.fc6
nautilus-devel-2.16.2-5.fc6
nautilus-actions-1.4-4.fc6
nautilus-image-converter-0.0.5-6.fc6
nautilus-extensions-2.16.2-5.fc6
nautilus-open-terminal-0.7-3.fc6
nautilus-cd-burner-2.16.0-6.fc6
nautilus-search-tool-0.2-2.fc6
I insured that he had all these, but STILL no side panel.
Where am I going wrong?
Thanks, Ray

Here is how I did it.

Make sure that you have gconf-editor installed.

If so, go to Applications-->system tools-->configuration editor to fire it up.

Then expand apps, expand nautilus click on preferences. Mark the check box that says 'always use browser'. Hopefully, that should get the sidepanel view.

I hope that helps.

You should also be able to do it within Nautilus itself. Click Edit - Preferences, and go to the Behaviour tab. Mark the "Always open in browser windows" checkbox. When you restart Nautilus, you should get browser windows with the sidebar, rather than the spatial view.

I hope this helps
--Ian