Annoying window maximize change from cs3 to cs4/5

When I hit the maximize button on an image window, it goes to full screen and I lose my top menu bar and side tool bar. Why the heck did they do this..who the hell wants this - why change the behaviour of the tab key?!! Its so annoying! Is there a way to get it back how it was? I want it to maximie to the available space inside the PS window, not the entire screen. I dont want a windowed or tabbed view in the available space.
I've tried:
CTRL-0
double clicking the hand tool
hitting "f" then "Tab"
..and they kind of get me there none of these ways are perfect. I'm a user since Version BETA, and this is hard to get used to. HELP! This is almost as annoying when they changed the key mappings and didnt provide a way to change it back. I sitll cant remembwe what key brush is.

Thanks for the replies. I have used the arrange windows feature. So lets say I was compiling elements from two psd files.. I'd tile them, or likely just have one next to each other. Then when I want to blow one up to maximize the available window space, I would normally just hit the maximize button on the window and start working, but when I do that now, I lose the menu bar and tool bar. I do have two 24" monitors and keep the layers and other sub tools and properties windows off to the right window. But I need the main tool bar on the left side - like its been for the last 14 years. I also need the menu bar.
So this is where it gets annoying. Why isn’t there an option to just maximize the window to the available space like it used to be? I either have to grab the window and drag it up to make it a tab.. or hit maximize button, hit F, then hit Tab, which sort of gets me there, but then I'm in a weird mode I have to back out of later when I want to see that other window in the background. They've added more clicks and user effort for what I can see as little gain. I'm changing between these modes all the time!
It’s cool they use tabs because well, hey Google and Mozilla introduced it so why not, but in the context of web browsing tabs may make sense, but for Photoshop its just annoying. I shouldn’t have to modify my deeply ingrained workflow to suit the needs of a new program feature. I hate when Adobe does this!! !'m considering uninstalling and going back to cs3.

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