Is it now easier to create custom workspaces in Bridge CS4 &CS5

I use CS3 and I swear to god this is the most frustrating and hard to remember procedure after I lose my saved Bridge workspace settings. Once I figure it out, save the settings with a custom name, it's out of site and out of mind, forgotten years afterward.
I spent all morning trying to remember by trial and error how to recreate my modified filmstrip workspace which has one horizontal divider (major PITA to remember how to implement) separating Folder panel from Metadata panel on the left column, Preview pane in center with Content thumbnail strip separated by a horizontal divider underneath and the right column collapsed by the extended Preview pane. Very simple and uncluttered setup.
I didn't want to use Snow Leopard Mac Migration Assistant transferring my Bridge Workspace prefs (which I couldn't find on my OS Tiger hard drive pulled from my dead 2004 G5 iMac) to my newly purchased 2010 Mac Mini with Snow Leopard attached to the dead imac's HD through a firewire enclosure. Just reinstalled CS3 from my licensed CD and downloaded all updates using Adobe's online Update system.
Only one post on how to create Bridge workspace using horizontal dividers came up in a search and it turned out to be wrong.
I finally figured it out by first choosing Horizontal Filmstrip mode which has the left column in a tabbed layout, the center with Preview/Content including a horizontal divider and the right column with a horizontal divider and tabbed windows. Next I removed all tabs on the left except (Folder) and kept one tab on the right column (Metadata panel).
Here's the key that gets missed and forgotten in all this. As I click on the Metadata panel tab and drag from the right column over to the left column there is a blue highlight surrounding the entire column which gets most folks to let go upon which you get the disappointing two tabbed left column with no horizontal divider.
HERE IT IS...WATCH FOR IT...there is a blue one line bar that you can get to appear AT THE TOP of the left column when hovering the dragged tab just above the tab already in place in the column. Most don't see or know about this blue highlight bar showing up like this. And even then INTUITION says the blue horizontal divider highlight bar should appear in the middle of the left column being dragged and dropped to. But since no one sees it or maybe even knows about and how to get it to highlight, it gets forgotten about and the confusion and frustration continues.
I tried to post this in the Bridge Feature Request which now takes me to a Photoshop.com site requiring a new account be made for signing in. After I sign in, go to Bridge section, there's no GUI allowing me to Post New Topic, so I posted here.

2 clicks in Bridge Help, huh? Yeah. I already know how to create a workspace. It's the specifics of creating a horizontal divider that I'm having trouble remembering how to do and what to search for when I forget.
2 clicks didn't get me to the page on how to create horizontal dividers which is what I entered into Bridge Help Search from the beginning before I posted here. It only indicates how to make and move panels by grabbing the tabbed column which I already knew.
Put yourself in the place of someone who has to recall how to do something this deceptively simple and then know what to ask and search for after years of not having to deal with this. Would like you to find in the Bridge Help (search or whatever) where it says blue single line highlight bar lightens up to tell the user that a horizontal divider is being created.
Also see if you find instructions in Bridge Help that say..."Don't confuse this single line highlight bar (which if you have a fast video card will barely stay on long enough to notice or distinguish from the regular blue highlight bounding box when hovering between columns trying to create single square shaped panels with an adjustable divider bar but only getting tabbed unadjustable columns".
Heck, put yourself in the place of a newbie trying to figure this out. I've been doing this digital imaging stuff since '98 starting with Photoshop 4 and I'm having trouble.
Thanks for the directory location for Bridge's workspace. Don't know why doing a search using workspaces didn't find it. I finally hooked up my old G5 imac HD and found it along with the other "!!" workspaces but mine wasn't custom named which I may have altered slightly from when I first created it that originally included my name. I only found Workspace Horizontal Filmstrip Metadata.workspace. Wish there was a way to search where this file is at on the HD, but there's always google for finding that kind of stuff I guess.
Didn't find the "row of workspace names located at the top left of Search entry" in Bridge CS3.
But really this post is a disguised rant/feature request asking Adobe to allow instructions to show up by entering search terms... "Creating a Horizontal Divider In Bridge Workspace" when this situation comes up.
I'm hoping this rant will get indexed by google and show up in a search years later just so I'll remember this.

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