How to stop history from switching active layer?

Hi all.
This thing has bugged the hell out of me for years and years, I've always just coped with it, but I would really love a fix. I also noticed this is a problem a lot of other people have too.
When ever I'm painting etc. I like to have a fair amount of layers. It's nice to have the characters on a different layer than the backgroud for instance. But then at some point, as I'm painting the character, I notice that a quick ⌥ ⌘ Z I pressed a while ago has tranferred me to the background layer.
Please don't just tell me to live with it. I have been trying to adjust to it for ages, and it's still easily the biggest problem I have ever had with Photoshop. I've tried to start painting on a new layer by drawing a small scribble and erasing it and what not, but then sometimes I forget. Sometimes it's ok, but sometimes this ends up ruining my whole layer hierarchy (I have to collapse the whole thing or separate the character from the background all over again, which kind of ruins layers in general for me). Can't I just have a "stop this irritating thing from happening-tick" in the preferences?
I mostly work on CS5 with a mac at work, but I have a PC and CS4 at home with the same problem. I love Photoshop, and I'm not a coder, but is it really so hard to stop history from screwing with what layer I'm on? I know this might seem like a rant, and I guess it kind of is, but please please PLEASE help me fix this! Also, sorry if this has been discussed before, I'm sure it has actually, but I couldn't find it with a quick search.

It has come up before …
http://forums.adobe.com/search.jspa?resultTypes=DOCUMENT&resultTypes=MESSAGE&resultTypes=C OMMUNITY&resultTypes=TASK&resultTypes=PROJECT&resultTypes=SOCIAL_GROUP&resultTypes=COMMENT &peopleEnabled=true&q=undo+active+layer
I couldn’t locate the pertinent feature request at
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/products/photoshop_family_photoshop
so you might look some more there or just start an new one.

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