And in response to you missing the Explorer:
Option A: Double click on your hard drive icon. Go to the View menu and change the view to "As List" (like Details in Win). There's everything on your hard drive.
Option B: Press Apple Key and N -- for a new window showing what you want to show. Go to Finder (smiling Mac guy on Dock). Click the Finder menu and select Preferences. Click the General icon. Then decide what you want new Finder windows to open to. If you have them show Computer, you'll have access to everything on all your drives.
Option B: Check out the shareware app called Pathfinder. Go to
www.versiontracker.com for Mac software.
Doug
P.S. If any of this is too simplistic / you already know this, I apologize.