Dreamweaver multiscreen set-up

I just got CS5.5 and looking at the "new" things they have. So far i'm not impressed by anything especially in photoshop, but now i'm looking at dreamweaver and the default sizes for the new "multiscreen" are stupid! what tablet is 768x300? i'm trying to design for an ipad (most popular tablet) and when i set that display to what a tablet display shuold be (1024x768) In the preview I lose the webpage preview! WTF - I cannot even adjust the screen preview to fit into the window!!! It drops below the screen and you can see 110 px which is completely useless. Then the phone preview is still there when i don't care about that, because I'm not designing for the phone with this job. - BUT where it would make sense to select which devices you want to see (and not see), there is no way I see to do this. I set the phone to 0 but 100x100px still show up, but I cannot see the webpage preview!
Does anyone have an suggestions on how to put the ipad left and the webpage right on the preview to where they both fit on screen? This should be the default settings IMO, but hey it's adobe and with my experience over the last 17 years and working wth adobe products, they don't really work for the customer, but cram everything "they think" is acceptable in the program and it is not the product it should or could be. This newest suite of products make me want to pull my hair out with problems and stupid changes, that cause me more headache than anything! I'm only on my 2nd product of the "upgrade" trying the changes and Photoshop has gotten worse, now i'm looking at dreamweaver with not much excitement on the additions / changes.
I want to set up the multiscreen preview to only show the tablet at iPad size and the webpage at normal size. How do i do this?

When developing with Media Queries, I work with one external stylesheet at a time by commenting out the others. When I'm pleased with the Desktop.css, I comment it out and make the Tablet.css active in code view. Works for me.
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, width=device-width" />

<link href="../Styles/Desktop.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"  />


Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/

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