Two neat things I've learned from Ed Bott recently:
OpenWide was written to avoid a few [more] minor annoyances with Windows. This program allows you to specify the position and size of Windows' Open and Save dialog boxes, and also to specify where the initial focus should be and which view will be the default.
openwide is a "DialogBox Extender". you can read a recent review we did of the best of them here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/DialogExtenders/index.html