I'd prefer if it didn't auto import them on double click but instead opened MC in its 'My Computer' view in the current folder and let me browse them as you suggested instantly from that location using next and previous.
darichman - just have a button next to the 'tack' that was a X to allow you to close the panes - beautiful
I use auto-hide in so many app's I guess I'm used to it.
I just LOVE the ability to get maximum working space as well as quick and easy, immediate accessibility to the tasks and actions I need.
As I've mentioned before, I also have this problem when opening images from explorer (i.e. it sends only the one double clicked file to playing now , but not the rest) , so browsing using the fullscreen viewer is not possible.
I think Johnnyboy's idea to open it up in "my Computer" view is a possible solution, but I still feel that if one double clicks an image in explorer, it should handle it the same way as if double clicking it in MC, ...sending the whole folder of images from which the image was double clicked, to playing now (which then alolows browsing with the fullscreen viewer).
And then in addition, open MC at MC's "my computer view", so that when the fullscreen viewer is closed, the users location in MC is at the same point where he/she left explorer.