We're just moving from SL8 to SL9. One of the UI changes that seems to be irritating my users is that the notebook tabs only appear on a single line now with a dropdown to select ones that aren't visible. Does anyone know of a way to make the Notebook tabs show on multiple lines so they can all be visible at the same time?
Under the "Miscellaneous" properties, try setting No Scroll to "True"
I'm curious: why don't you move to version 10 directly? It seems to me there are major enhancements and I feel (hope?) it's now quite stable (at least as stable as 9.01.1x). Is it because of SSRS or the App/Forms/Objects tables merging?
(as for your question, I'll let the others answer better than me)