Frames vs. Windows in Acrobat 9

We recently upgraded from Acrobat 7 to Acrobat 9.
Users who open multiple PDF documents in Acrobat have reported the default behavior of Acrobat 9 in opening PDFs is to use a new frame for each document that is opened.
They report that Acrobat 7 used multiple windows in a single frame as the default behavior.
Can this be changed in Acrobat 9 and if so, how?
Thanks,
Jesse Perry

This is the worst thing to happen to acrobat, in my opinion.
The clutter that it creates on my computer and the fact that i cant even see the document title when I have a bunch of them open (because the task bar is too full) is unacceptable.
I never would have changed from Acrobat 8 if I had known, and now I cant switch back (company license).
The latest thing i can find about addressing it is here:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb405108&sliceId=1
which was in november 2008....
why hasnt any thing else been done about it? I just spent 45 minutes being sent to different departments over the phone, only to be told to submit a feature request.
Please do this if you havent already:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

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