How does everyone else fit all their Logic stuff into a 2-screen setup?

Logic 8 comes with a beautiful setup for fitting all of the display information in one monitor, but are there any custom fit, default set-ups for a dual monitor set-up? Or do I have to make my own. Any suggestions out there for a work flow as intuitive as the one window interface that locks so well into one full screen's space? I've got two 19" (non-widescreen) Samsung's that I am looking to utilize. How did everyone else set themselves up?

Most of the time I keep an arrange window on one display (full screen), and use the other display for one of the other window types, depending on what I'm doing: piano roll, sample editor, or mixer, typically. I keep the sample editor or piano roll linked to the arrange window so that it gives me a picture of whatever I've selected in the arrange window.
On a few occasions I've found it handy to have two arrange windows, one on each display, with different zoom levels. If I have a bunch of region editing to do, for example, it can be easier to do big navigation moves in the zoomed-out arrange window and detailed stuff in the zoomed-in one.
hth,
-Luddy

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