In 1.7 this shouldn't be a problem. There was a bug in 1.6 that prevented default views from working if the viewtype was invalid so all the views were just empty. It has been corrected since...
So to avoid this problem in the future, do you advise upgrading to 1.7?
I advise not to change the the default view type at all, but in 1.7 if you do change it to something invalid, it will still work.
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