Aperture Dual Display Mode Poor?

One of the big reasons I picked up Aperture was its ability to utilize my dual display set-up, but the implementation in Aperture seems hamstrung to me.
I have a 22" Cinema Display as my main screen with a 17" Studio Display to it's left. What I'd LIKE to do is have the 22" with a full version of a book layout (for example) with all the thumbnails on the 17". But it seems that I can't do this, being only able to use the 17" to show a full screen version of the selected image.
I'd love to see the Aperture interface tabbed the way Final Cut Pro's is so that the various elements could be moved across the 2 displays as wanted.
Seems to be a poor implementation. Is there a way to get better flexibility?
Cheers,
Joe

Thanks all, I have come up with a temporary "workaround" just by moving the Aperture interface all the way to the left on the 17" and extending it to cover the whole of the 22".
IF I could save the workspace, that would be OK (not great but ok).
In the meanwhile I can have the thumbs on the 17" with the book just about full screen on the 22"
I did try that changing the primary monitor thing and that's also kind of a pain, plus it still didn't let me see my book layout up close on the 22".
I think tabbing the screen elements would do it, and no I hadn't seen the "feedback" link before (I got the program 2 days ago) so I will definitely do that, too.
Thanks again for the feedback!

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