Remove CS5 Adjustment Layers as Palettes?

I know when CS5 first came out even the standard modal windows for Levels, Curves etc. were housed in a Palette and that blew my mind with hatred. It seems they've fixed that but are still limiting Adjustment Layers to the same Palette fate.
Is there any way on earth to switch back to the standard modal type window for Adjustment Layers? Forcing us to use them in a Palette window makes me want to go get a root canal.
Any help would be imensively appriciated. I've had CS5 for over a year and simply cannot use it due to this and some other issues.

Your first couple of sentences are incorrect. Nothing's been "fixed" since Photoshop CS5 first came out. Image - Adjust - Curves, for example, has always been a modal dialog.
Regarding the panel-based adjustments... Have you tried to pan the image while in a modal dialog by pressing the space bar? Oops. Sure, the panel is a little different than the dialog, but we've all had to get used to it. The ADJUSTMENTS panel was introduced not in CS5, but way back in CS4, by the way.
What is it that's bothering you about the panel?
You're always welcome to submit your ideas for enhancing Photoshops's features here:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family
-Noel

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I think I know what the problem may be:
When you're adding a new adjustment layer the following checkbox is coming on by default:
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Hi!
I have now exactly the same problem as below with over 1000 images, I have saved them in .psd that has over 100 layers each. On top of those there is curves and levels layer that affects every layer below. I want to save all images to .jpg for videoedit with those curves at least. I don't want to merge same curves 100 times. Is there a solution in phothoshop cs5 or cs6 available? Would save alot of working hours. All I have got by this far is blank white images of adjustment layers and non adjusted jpg-files.
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How to merge adjustment layers to hundreds of layers?
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Say I have a photoshop File with 100 layers. And say I created 3 adjustment layers on top of those 100 layers to get the adjustments that i want for those layers. I'm happy with the adjustments but Then I NEED to merge those 3 adjustment layers to ALL those 100 layers. Is there a way to easily permanently apply the adjustments to each of those layers without having to do it manually? I absolutely need to merge the adjustments to the seperate layers because of how the layers are being used in a seperate 3d program.
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first
doing action on one photo only with any effects or filtters .
second
doing Droplet = File > Automate > Create Droplet.
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This is a twofold question.
1. What is the best order to put adjustment layers in?
2. Are adjustment layers slower than the "old" way?
More details
1. Stacking Order
After noticing some irregularities in my render times, I have discovered that it matters A LOT which order you apply effects in adjustment layers--how they are stacked.
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QUESTION
It's obvious, at least from this limited test above, that the stacking order of effects is important. Only now, after doing the testing, I know that I need to do my CC first THEN my noise removal. But what about with other effects?
2. Adjustment Layers Slower?
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1. The order actually applies to the effects themselves, as the stacking order can produce different results, depending on the effects used.
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I skipped CS4 and when I installed CS5 I discovered a nasty bug had been introduced is Photoshop's Action facility most likely in CS
4.
Action that add adjustment Layers clipped to the current layer that step is recorded Make adjustment layer with Clip.
Action that add adjustment Layers not clipped Step records as Make adjustment layer.
When a step Make adjustment layer with Clip is played back that is what Photoshop does.
When a step Make adjustment layer is played back what Photoshop does is look at the adjustment panel clipping icon state and and if
it is clip to current layer Photoshop does clip the adjustment layer to the current when is should be applied to all.
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To avoid the problem you described, i always leave
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I just let the actions dictate clipped or not.
If i want to clip a layer, i just do it myself using the button circled in red.
MTSTUNER

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If I have the exact same clip in 2 separate comps...In Comp 1 I have 5 color correction effects on a single adjustment layer, and in Comp 2 I have 5 adjustment layers with the same effects, 1 effect each spread over the 5 adjustment layers (in the same order). Should I theoretically expect to get the exact same image in both comps?
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I don't know if this is just the way the Colorista II keyer works, or if this is a global After Effects-wide order-of-operations thing that I don't fully have a handle on.
As far as I understand the SDK, it is not considered practical, since it would require a plug-in to establish its own comp buffer outside the main rendering pipeline, which could lead to issues with color consistency and things like premultiplied vs. straight Alpha. I also seem to remember that as of CS5 it is actually no longer technically possible. Hence effects that use specific source footage API calls will bypass any previous effects and directly operate on the source.
My question is, what (if anything) is the difference in behavior between multiple effects on a single adjustment layer vs the same effects spread out over multiple adjustment layers? Is it predictable & consistent?
The result should be the same under all circumstances, assuming all adjustment layers have the same opacity and no masks and their stacking order is equal. Only when you apply masks or adjust the opacity to fade specific adjustments you will see differences. It is also to note that having all effects might be a bit faster and more efficient, since less data is passed from buffer to buffer...
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when I try to open an adjustment layer the working panel on the right of the screen comes up with a strip showing a thumbnail of my photo, but there is no link and no white rectangle. What is wrong? Peasashjoan

It sound like you have set one Adjustment Panels fly-out menu option at one poin in time. Adobe introduced Bugs in CS4 they don't seem to want to fix. The Adjustment layer was added to your document at a point in time that Adjustment Panel Fly-out menu Item Do not add Layer mask was most likely checked. If the Layer was added by an action it or script it may well have been added differently the the way the action or script was created to work. To create actions that add adjustment layer these days you need to edit the actions and change the way Adjustments layers are added. Actions need to add them in a way that how the fly-out options are set is not relevant. In other words all-way have an active selection present when an action add a adjustment layers. The layer will have a Layer mask. And All-way record adding the adjustment layer using the layer menu Layer>Add Adjustment Layer>Type and check the clip to previous option is the popup add adjustment layer dialog. That way the Adjustment layers will be clipped. If you record an action that add an adjustment layer any other you have no way of knowing how the layer will be added if you using a version of Photoshop newer the CS3.
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