CS4 & CS5 Swatches Palette

Hi there, i know this is small but i wondered if we could have it fixed for CS6. CS3< were fine with this because they did not have custon UI, but CS4 was bad, and CS5 is slightly better but still wrong.
Its just the swatches window, all of the colors are offset compaired to the old version where they were laid out properly. This image shows what i mean:
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s133/rickyt_album/imageofswatches.jpg
If this small UI error could be fixed it would be much appreciated!! I have also noticed the Mac version of CS5 does not have this it seems.

To reinforce what Chris has said, drag the Swatches palette out of its docked position by its little tab...
-Noel

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