Lightroom :: Locking Default Options For Import?

Could we have a more definitive way to establish personal defaults for IMPORT.
 
When I import from my camera card, I normally start in the Folder sub-panel of Library and do a right-click "Create a new folder inside ..." and then after that is completed I select the folder just created and right click again and "Import to this folder ..."
 
This brings up IMPORT with my destination already visually established AND the folder already created within my folder structure and then all I need to do is quickly verify my options and click IMPORT in the lower right corner.
 
But for the life of me, I couldn't get my options to be sticky ... e.g. preview resolution, destination, etc.  I'd set them, do the IMPORT as above, finish it and when I'd go back in they wouldn't have been left the way I set them.  But I knew that sometimes this DID happen.
 
Turns out that if you invoke IMPORT via the button in the lower left corner of Library and complete the sequence (rather than import to this folder via a right-click) ... then options set from that initiation point are sticky and are rembered the next time you go in.
 
My question is: could we not have a more specific way of saving the defaults on the screen so no matter how you entered IMPORT, you can establish your default and 'lock' it.