Preview seems to ignore PDF prefs

Greetings,
No matter what I select in the Default Document Scale section of the Preview prefs, PDFs always open exactly the same way:
* The document is sized to fit vertically in the window
* The left edge of the window is, inexplicably, about an inch in from the left edge of the screen
* The drawer is always present for multi-page docs
Here's my fantasy for how all PDFs would open: window at 100% screen width and height, document sized to fit horizontally, and NO DRAWER!!
Am I dreamin', or is this possible? It's Preview 3.0.9 (409).
Thanks!
DM

I second this notion, but we all know that Apple doesn't care to address these little things that annoy power users like us to no end.
Other cases in point: when searching for files on the system, you ALWAYS have to click the name of the folder you just opened so Finder doesn't waste time trolling through the entire system. IMAP accounts on Mail.app will always display wrong new message count. I could go on and on...

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