Finder window - shortcut to expand window to full screen?

Right now to expand the finder window to the fill the screen I press CmdOptT to lose the sidebar, then drag the window to the top left corner of the screen, then drag the bottom right corner all the way down to the bottom right of the screen to expand the window size. This is kind of tedious when you're doing it a thousand times. For my current tasks this is my system, (don't ask why:).
Pressing the green button in the top left only extends the window vertically, the horizontal width remains fixed (ie, narrow). Is there a shortcut for expanding the Finder window to fill the whole screen?
Thanks!

That's why I prefaced my remarks with Appears. The Finder can crash and restart immediately without a restart, giving the appearance of instantaneously reappearing. To rule that out, check the ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ and /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ to ensure that there's no finder.crash.logs, therein. Since it doesn't happen during a safe boot, I suspect a corrupt or conflicting plist file, given Finder isn't crashing. Create a new admin user account, log into it, and see if the problem's gone. If so, then it's definitely a corrupt/conflicting plist file. See the steps I posted for resolving conflicts/corrupt plists within an account at:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4703015

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