What's a good way to search in Leopard when I'm used to Panther's CMD-F?

I need advice on how to search for files now that I'm using Leopard (instead of Panther) - it's beginning to wear my nerves thin. It was so incredibly easy to search under Panther but under Leopard I find it takes a lot more effort and gives inferior results. I've only had Leopard a few months and I must be missing something obvious.
In Panther I could type CMD-F and it would open up a separate window where I could put in my search criteria and it would search and present the results in a separate window, sorted in list view. It would let me by default, set up my search criteria, e.g. filename, and always search by file name in designated place(s).
In Panther if I wanted to search for an item in the active Finder window I could type in the search box in the upper right corner and after I found what I wanted I could click the x and it would go back to being the normal Finder window.
Not so in Leopard.
Now in Leopard, if I hit CMD-F it takes whatever window I was working in and turns it into some kind of search dialog. No thanks! If I wanted to search in that Window I would have.
The problem is that there is apparently no keyboard command to undo this unwanted behavior - I have to take my hands off the keyboard and use the trackpad to click the browser back arrow to get my window back, then I have to open a new window for this search dialog to operate in.
Next up in unwanted behavior, this search dialog never remembers that 100% of the time I am searching on the file name, and that I never ever ever want to search the "contents". So each time I do the search, I have to again take my hands off the keyboard and click "File Name", and then once again, I have to switch from icons to list view every single time since looking at an Icon with an abbreviated "File Name..." (without all the metadata about the file that one should be able to see in list view) is not as helpful as looking at the list view.
To make matters worse though, in list view, there's a totally useless column called "Last opened" and there doesn't seem to be any way to change these columns to something useful, such as last modified or created date.
What do I need to do to make my searches simple and efficient?
Thanks.

Start with http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html and http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html, then my mod to Finder's Find at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080229204517495 for what you can change so you can find stuff excluded by the default structure.

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