Still can't dock Properties Panel at top in CS5

While I'm pretty happy with the improvements to Fireworks CS5 what I'm most annoyed with what Adobe didn't fix: Allowing the Properties panel to dock to the top!
This was something that you could do in CS3 and earlier, but was removed with the CS4 UI redesign, supposedly for suite consistency. I was hoping it would finally come back in CS5 but no luck.
Seems ridiculous to allow the 900-pixel wide Properties panel to dock to the sides but not the top! Not to mention, most other CS products (except Dreamweaver) have similar Options or Property inspectors at the top...so if they're going for consistency, they should allow the Fireworks Properties panel to dock the top. And, yes, I wish I could I move the Dreamweaver Properties panel to the top as well.
Thanks for letting me vent...submitting a feature request on this wasn't enough.

What would be the advantage of docking it at the top? I cant find one myself.
What kind of answer is that
What is the advantage of having it docking at the bottom ?? Surely it's a matter of personal preference ? Why have it dock at all if you think it should always be at the bottom ?
I've been using Fireworks for years and (for reasons I can't remember) have always had the Properties panel docked at the top.
Now, after paying lots of money to upgrade to CS5, I really can't believe that it won't let me have the panels arranged like I want them !
This may seem like a trivial issue, and I'm obviously not a normal user, but it's annoying me so much that I don't even want to use FW CS5

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