Keep external display full screen on macbook pro

Anyone know how to get an external display to go full screen and not exit full screen when using the internal display? When you click away from the full screen window or switch applications full screen automatically exits.
Is there a way to write a script to tell the full screen only to exit when told to, or does anyone know of a third party program that can do this? I got the freeware cinch to help control full screen on externals but there's no use for it if it will just exit.
 MacBook Pro A1226 2.2GHz Intel

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