How do YOU manage multiple displays in Mountain Lion?

I'm finding that Mountain Lion's changed display management awfully hard to rationalize. I recently purchased a Macbook Air. I love it, but as a developer I did need more screen real estate. A few days ago I plugged an external 22" monitor in and was horrified to discover that a) full-screen mode renders one display worthless b) flipping between spaces flips BOTH screens.
This is entirely incomprehensible to me, but I'll leave the question of the wisdom of the decision for others to debate.
What I want to do is simple. Either:
a) be able to flip between spaces on either display INDEPENDENT of the other
and/or
b) Flip between spaces on one display while leaving the other untouched. For example, using one as a reference screen while flipping between the browser and my code editor.
So, fellow developers and power users, how do YOU manage this scenario? Is there some 3rd-party utility that allows me to easily restore the functionality I had in previous versions of OSX?

Why not start here.

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