CS4 Workspace Question

I really hate the way the workspace functions in CS4. I don't like the mac interface, if I wanted a mac, I would have bought one. I don't like that the tool panels are not in the workspace so when I zoom an image, the image window ends up behind the tool panels. In my previous versions, this was not the case. Is there any way to make the workspace like it was in CS3?
Thanks

Well, that is the way it works...try again. Note that it's the cursor position that pops up the blue line, not the panel edge.
Unfortunately a screen shot doesn't capture mouse events, so I can't illustrate.
Drag one panel by the tab, and when you get to the edge of the workspace, just inside the thin UI border, a blue line appears. Individual panels dock vertically to each other the same way (drag to the lower edge of the panel above).

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