Seeing text like in older Photoshop versions

I have Photoshop 5.5 and CS5.  I like the speed and additional features of CS5, but there are a few things that I really don't like.  Perhaps I simply don't know how to use it properly.
One of my problems concerns text.  In older versions of Photoshop, if you wanted to enter text, a dialog box would come up and you'd do everything there.  Meanwhile, the text would appear on your image in its final form.  In newer versions, you're typing on the image itself.  Then, if you want to edit the text (font face, size, etc.), you have to highlight the text on the image, which inverts the color and then you make changes via the options in the header.  You can't really see how it's going to look until you finish your changes and un-highlight it.
Is there a way for me to make changes to the text on an image so that I can see the text as it will ultimately look AS I'm making the edits, similar to older Photoshop versions?

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