Listing recent folders

I recently upgraded to a Mac Book Pro from a Power Book G4. When I looked for saved files using various software (Photoshop, MS Word and others) on my Powerbook I would get a list of the 10 most recent FOLDERS. Now with my Mac Book Pro I only get a list of 5 most recent FOLDERS. I have looked in the preferences on the software programs to see where to change this, but they don't have a way to do this that I could find (I can change the number of recent files, but not folders). I'm guessing since it works the same on all software that it is some setting on my Mac Book Pro, but when I look through the system preferences I could not find anything to change this. How do I set it so my Mac list 10 previous folders and not 5?
Thanks!
Pat

I tried that and it did not work. It only had documents, applications and servers listed. It did not have folders. The documents, applications and servers all were set to 20. I messed with them to see it would have any affect on the folder number and it did not. Any other ideas?
Thanks,
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