Rounded Rectangles question

I'm afraid I may know the answer to this already, but this is so fundamental I think I must be doing something wrong. In AICS3, I want to draw a rounded rectangle, but I want to control the radius of the arc defining the four corners. I'm trying to emulate an open field notebook, which has rounded corners on its pages. Illustrator seems to have a single radius, randomly chosen and consistant regardless of the size of the rectangle. I've tried double clicking the icon and get nothing. The "Transform" palette is the same as it is for all shapes: nothing but simplistic x,y inputs. (As an aside, I run into these types of problems quite a bit. The fact that AI does not draw circles and arcs has always been a problem (a circle or arc being a line controled by radius, diamter, chord, circumference or fractions thereof.)) The rounded rectangle I draw is nothing more than a rectangle with two control points at each corner. I'm hopeful there is an easy way to make those corners perfect arcs of any size by some numerical input somewhere, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to resort to my usual method: drawing it in my CAD program and importing it. Optimisim, however, rules the day today and so I'm throwing the question out there. I have CS4 access, too, so if it is possible in that version I'll switch computers for a while. Thanks in advance for any help!
MGuilfoile

While dragging a rounded rectangle, add the keyboard modifier of up cursor or down cursor to adjust the radius, while drawing.
If you click once with the rounded rectangle tool and let go, you will get the dialog box.

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