Open,, Save as,, Link file,, CS3 doesn't function the same as CS2!

We have a 25 seat license here for CS3 and we've all noticed that in Indesign when you use the 'open' and 'save as' and 'link file', the window will point to the last place you did this function, rather than the actual folder you are currently working in. Argh! Why is this? Indesign CS2 didn't behave this way. Photoshop CS3 and Illustrator CS3 don't behave this way. It's a huge waste of time.
For some of the designers here it's no big deal because they usually work on the same project (and in the same folder) all day. But for most of us whom will bounce around from client folder or project folder, it's annoying as hell to have to re-path the link file, or the folder you want to open, or the location you want to save to.
I've asked IT to look into it. They couldn't find anything. I've checked the Forums. Didn't find anything. So now I'm posting.
I still use CS2 at home which works the way I'm used to. While at home, if I hit the re-link in Indesign (CS2), it points me to the folder that I'm working in and I choose the file I want. Done. At work if I hit the re-link in Indesign CS3, it points me to the last job folder that I updated a link from,, I have to repath thru the network, find the client folder that I'm now working on, and then chose the file.
Same with Open and Save as. Help!!! Is there a way to change this? It's not a system setting, it's a CS3 setting.
I hope so.
Harvey

OK, Fine.
Thing is,, this sucks. I work in a folder happy design department. If there are more than 30 files in a folder, or more than 3 general catagories, a subfolder gets created.
I think this is just Adobe's way of forcing people to use Bridge. Which would be fine if we worked 600 files here to each folder,, like I do at home. I like bridge, I use it at home all the time on my laptop. I'm not folder happy. Bridge does everything I need. But my workplace is folder happy, and once you put it in a folder, you might as well be burying it somewhere. And I'll work in 6 or more client folders every day. Argghhh!
In order to 'live with it' I've created a folder on my desktop which I fill with shortcuts to the 20 or so current and active clients that I have every week, (out of our 500 or so client list). Then I just click to that folder on my desktop and chose the shortcut.
Sucks that there's not an option.
Thanks
-H

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