Dreamweaver templates dialogue box

I work with several sites and take advantage of Dreamweaver's template management.
Mostly it's great, but there's one extremely frustrating problem that I hoped would be addressed for the last three DW versions or so:
When I'm dealing with sites that have a lot of templates and their nested templates, the template dialogue box is not sufficient. I waste minutes trying to find any given template because:
a) you can't resize the dialogue box, so you can only view about 6 or 7 templates at a time, which doesn't cut it on large websites.
b) they are in no comprehensible order - not alphabetical, not in the order in which they were created - it almost seems random
Here's the box I'm talking about. I get it by going to Modify->Templates->Apply Template to Page:
I've been working with DW for years but I don't know it all, so maybe I'm missing an easier way to do this.
Is there perhaps a way that I can apply templates and/or view the template hierarchy without having to use the extremely small and archaic dialogue box, or can I edit a file or registry entry to address this?
Thanks!

Hi Murray,
Thanks for the feedback! I'll elaborate to give you an idea of where I'm coming from.
I'm forced to use nested templates in order to help make department or section-specific changes to an Intranet website of thousands of pages without having to scan and/or re-write all of the files. This also helps out a lot with our content management system if I want 30+ content developers to be able to change their pages without compromising the integrity of their particular department or section's designs, which falls ultimately under the root template of the site, but with certain repeated sub-elements and/or aspects that are department or section-specific. Each section might have tens of pages where a change to the section might be repetitive if not controlled via a nested template.
Much of this is accomplished via scripting, but my content developers don't know html/scripting so there are some elements that I need to be 'flat' so that they are able to do their jobs without the interaction of my team.
That being said, I'm sure there's definitely some room for your suggestion of re-working the approach - by now there are some outdated templates as the site has evolved, but getting the site down to only a few templates is, at this time, not an option for my situation given the number of people who need to work on the site and the granularity of access control that I've been charged with maintaining / delegating.
You mentioned that later versions of DW have significantly altered this whole approach - can you briefly elaborate on this (you've peaked my interest)? I'm using DW CS4 10.0 build 4117 for Windows.
Thanks for any further insight you can provide!

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