Neutral desktop workspace / background in CS3

When I used PS CS3 on my Windows machine, it would auto put a gray background on the desktop when PS launched. I like this b/c it covered up all other applications that were open. On my MAC - it opens just the top menu bar and the tool bars but everything else shows. When I open a new doc, it opens up a window that sits over the other windows / apps. I realize I can hit F to change the b'ground to gray / black, BUT this enlarges the entire doc window. I want to see several individual docs open and be able to move them around on the gray background at any given time. Please advise if you have a solution.
THANKS!

There is no application frame in CS3. CS4 is the first version to have an Application frame on the Mac. the majority of Mac users do not like the Application Frame as it allows us to see the other windows of the other apps we are working with and just click between them.
What most of us do is have a gray background an RGB gray of 192,192,192 is best. I have a variation on a solid gray background by turning one of the shoshy Apple backgrounds grayscale then returning to RGB and adjusting it as close to the 192,192,192 as passible.
the other thing you can do is press the F key once puts you in Maximise mode, twice puts you in Full screen mode, three times is Full screen mode with a black instead of gray, and four times back where you started.
If you want an Application Frame I suggest you upgrade to CS4.

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Nice to meet you. My first Mac was a IIcx. Is that "long-time" enough?
I'm fully capable of understanding when marketing mumbo-jumbo is being pushed. But I'm more inclined to believe an actual Photoshop developer than groundless conspiracy theories from someone in a forum. Why would Adobe need to market this feature? No reasonable customer is going to return a Photoshop Mac license, return their Mac and go back to using Windows because they are susprised by being able to see through to the desktop. Adobe has nothing to gain from this feature, except what John Nack described.
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