ITunes 11 - I am absolutely lost - what happened to transferring apps, files, etc.?

I have iTunes 10 at work, but I made the mistake of installing 11 on a computer at home.  All it seems to have is advertisements for music or other media, which I absolutely do not care about. In know they call it I"Tunes," but all I want to do is transfer files (to Goodreader app, for example). 
When I connect at wor on iTunes 10, I can display the tablet desktop screens, move icons around, off load or on load apps I have purchased, and generally manage those superficial things.
Now I cannot seem to do that anymore.  Very very very frustrated.  Is it possible to uninstall iTunes 11 and find and download 10 so that I can manage my apps and other data in my tablet?  Is this capability gone now?  Why would apple think all this music, video, whatever is useful here?  I see music, Movies, books, etc. as choices across the top of the screen.  I don't want any of that at all.  I just want to manage my tablet and move files on/off Goodreader and other apps like I can with iTunes 10.
What am I missing here?  This is really time consuming.  Any way to completely disable and block all iTunes content or whatever related to music or videos and just work with useful items?

The main differences between iTunes 11 and earlier versions are the loss of coverflow and ability to have multiple windows open.
In Windows, you can restore much of the look & feel of iTunes 10.7 with these shortcuts:
ALT to temporarily display the menu bar
CTRL+B to show or hide the menu bar
CTRL+S to show or hide the sidebar
CTRL+/ to show or hide the status bar (won't hide for me on Win XP)
Click the magnifying glass top right and untick Search Entire Library to restore the old search behaviour
Use View > Hide <Media Kind> in the cloud or Edit > Preferences > Store and untick Show iTunes in the cloud purchases to hide the cloud items. The second method eliminates the cloud status column (and may let iTunes start up more quickly)
If you don't like having different coloured background & text in the Album (Grid) view use Edit > Preferences > General and untick Use custom colours for open albums, movies, etc.
With iTunes 11.0.3 and later you can enable artwork in the Songs view from View > Show View Options (CTRL+J) making it more like the old Album List view
View > Show View Options (CTRL+J) also contains options to change the sorting of grid based views
If you feel the need to roll back to iTunes 10.7 first download a copy of the 32 bit installer or 64 bit installer as appropriate, uninstall iTunes and supporting software, i.e. Apple Application Support & Apple Mobile Device Support. Reboot. Restore the pre-upgrade version of your library database as per the diagram below, then install iTunes 10.7.
See iTunes Folder Watch for a tool to scan the media folder and catch up with any changes made since the backup file was created.
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