Mac Pro not using all my Ram.

I have 20 GB of Ram installed on my machine. The computer acknowledges this in the system profiler and activity monitor. So why is it that, regardless of how many apps I have running, my Ram usage never exceeds 4 GB? I know about 32 bit computing limiting an individual apps Ram usage to 4 GB but why is this limitation applied to my system as a whole? Why is everything collectively limited to 4 GB?
Current example via Activity Monitor:
Used Memory = 3.75 GB
Virtual Memory = 70.71 GB
Free Memory is 16.24
Why can't I ever access that extra 16 GB?

You might, running CS3/4 and working with larger files (1GB+).
Cache portion is also holding files and applications in memory as well as deferring disk I/O.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342?viewlocale=en_US

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The old method, to conserve and not use memory, went away years ago so as not to let a valuable resource sit idle and not being used.
Even if you don't have pageouts the system dynamically will use more if and when there is more memory present.
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