How do change the default "Save As" from PSD to JPG?

I know a while back, Photoshop was offering to save my files as JPEGs as default.  But now it defaults to saving as a PSD file, and I am having some difficulty figuring out how to make it save as a JPG file instead.
OS: CS 5.1 Production Premium, Mac
Adobe Photoshop 5.1
Thanks!

Some of the posters up in this thread implied that this is a problem and/or is somehow not logical (yes, I know some of the posts are old).
That's not the case.  There actually is rhyme and reason.  Understanding it could help you make better decisions while using Photoshop.
Photoshop has a concept that you will be working with master documents and occasionally saving copies as work products.  Conceptually a master document is saved into a file and loaded from a file so that it maintains all the features you added while editing.
So Photoshop considers that JPEG can actually house a master document IF (and only if) all the features of your document can be saved in the JPEG format.  For this to be true, the document has to be a flat single layer, 8 bits/channel, and without other things such as extra channels.  It can have paths.
Here's the logic as I understand it:
IF the last time you saved or opened the master document you're working on you saved it as a JPEG, and IF all the features currently in the document can be saved as a JPEG, your default format in the File - Save As menu will be JPEG.
If you change or add something in the document - say create a layer (or turn the Background into a layer), add a channel, or increase the bit depth to 16 - the next time you try to save it Photoshop will offer to save it in e.g., PSD format, since that format is now needed to save and re-load all the additional features of the document that you have added.  At this point, if you override the default format and change it to JPEG, you'll find the [ ] As a Copy option will be automatically be given a checkmark which you can't change, indicating you cannot save all the current document features in that format.
For brand new documents you've just created, I believe Photoshop simply checks to see if the current document can be completely saved in the last master document format you saved something else in successfully, and offers that as the default if everything about the document will "fit" in that format.  So if a few minutes ago you saved a JPEG master document, then you created a new flattened image in 8 bits/channel and now you do File - Save As, it will offer JPEG as the default choice.
Someone please correct me if I've missed anything here.
-Noel

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