Opening folders in the same tab???

I'm fairly new to Macs and I have a question. I currently run OS 10.5.3. I know that for security reasons (i.e. not accidentally deleting something) that when you open folders in Finder that the default setting is to open each folder in a different window, like below...
Harddrive 1
Music
Nirvana
Nevermind
Songs
Is there a way to change the options so that everything opens in one window? It's a real pain to have to X out of so many windows everytime I want to search for something - and please don't tell me to use the search feature lol. I know how to use that but I'm curious if I can override the each folder in a new window option, so that I can just have one window with either several tabs or so I can just hit the back arrow key, forward arrow keys so it looks more like....
Harddrive 1 -> Music -> Nirvana -> Nevermind -> Songs
For the record, I am the administrator of the computer. For the only other account on the computer (my girlfriends) it opens everything in one window where you can just click the back and forward arrows, like I'm hoping to be able to do. I know she didn't mess with any options either because she's not too computer savvy, so is that the default for non-administrators? I know I didn't set it that way.

The back and forward arrows are to go to the last opened folder and the next.
They function EXACTLY like the back and forward arrows in Safari.
Finder can't do tabs.
Try pathfinder, as the other poster recommended.

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