Searching in the Finder Window - can default location to search be changed?

I think this behavior isn't unique to Leopard, but it's always confused me a bit.
If I'm in a finder window -- say, for instance in my Applications Folder, and I enter a term in the search box -- such a "Firefox".
The top bar of the search results defaults to "This Mac". In general, I'd rather have it default to the folder that I'm in (in my example, "Applications").
Is there way to change this behavior?
Thanks. -

I did a search on the forums and haven't found an answer for this yet. This issue is EXTREMELY annoying. In my art department, we work off of a server that has all of our ads, named with their account numbers for quick finding. When searching for a particular ad in Tiger, it remembered to search the selected file on the server. Now in Leopard, it defaults every time to "This Mac" and by "Contents". I'd rather have it remember what location type I last searched, and "File Name" be default, since it'll likely be faster than searching file contents.
One workaround is to do a search in the desired folder with a single word, save the search in the Finder sidebar. Whenever you want to search it again, just click the saved search, double-click the search word and type your search. Problem is, if you have many different folders, your sidebar would be huge.
We need an Apple update to fix this, unless somebody can figure out how to change it.

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