Is there anyway to make it so the full path to the current directory that I'm working in will appear in the top of the Finder window? For example, if I'm in ~/sites/domain.com/images/cart/ I'd rather it show that full path instead of just cart.
Cmd-clicking the title bar icon will show you the same thing without having to add another toolbar button, but it's an on-demand function, it won't make the full path visible in the title bar, which is what I think you're wanting? I don't know of any way of doing that with OS X's Finder, but CocoaTech's Path Finder might do it.view>customize toolbar
there's an icon called path - it gives a pulldown list of the path to the current folder.