Illustrator CS 5 palettes smart - a little too smart for me.

I have come out of the CS 3 age and CS 5 is throwing me some curves because it is so 'helpful.'
What I really need help with is controlling the behavior of palettes: When I am working, the palettes keep changing according to what I am doing. I would like to not have palettes change.
I work intently with layers and it is aggrivating to find my layers palette has changed or disappeared so I have to go into the windows pull-down to check layers again so I can keep working.
Is there any way I can stop the unhelpful behavior of palettes disappearing and, or, changing while I am working with a variety of tools? I need my Layers palette to stay put and not be affected by any work I am doing.
Solving this would help put me back to productive work.
TIA,
Ken

Manish_1988 wrote:
Drag the layer panel in the centre of the windows...hence you will do that you can expand the pallete with the "two black arrow button" on top left right of pallette.
Then you can move the pallette wherever you want and it will not close.
This sounds even more interesting, but I will need to explore what you say here on my computer in Illustrator to see how that works. If it leads to keeping the palette open without it deciding to close on it's own initiative, then it will be great.
I am closing down shop right now so will try both of the ideas given in these posts tomorrow and report back, hopefully with good news.
I was able to drag the layers palette out as you said and it is expanded to normal size. I will need to use it tomorrow under normal circumstances to see if it stays open. It surprises me that the palette would disappear whether or not it was grouped with other palettes. This should not be, and has never been the behavior in older versions of Illustrator or even Photoshop new versions do not behave like this.
Mystery.
Thank You,
Ken

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