Is it just me or was the Flash 5 panels easier to work with then the crap that is put in Flash Mx. They take up almost the entire screen so that you have to resize your canvas so small it is impossible to work or you are constantly scrolling left and right, up and down. Flash 5 was much better!
why don’t you just close the panels?
Then you have to search for the options you want all over the menu bar and half your screen is still taken up. Macromedia should let you use the Flash 5 interface like they do with Dreamweaver MX and the Dreamweaver 4 interface.
use the tab key
you can also undock your panels and make them floating - floating and collapsed they take up less space.
The previous Flash interface is tainted though, thanks to a fit Adobe had over MM stealing that style of panel management/look etc.
You’ll get used to panels in MX