Well, I poked around in the internal prefs (something you should be really careful about) and found "Frame Dock At Top"
At first try it seemed to simply remove all of the dockable windows and leave nothing but the tracks. Eventually I figured out that the docking area really was at the top of the app but needed to be draged down so you could see it.
Don't know why it is so hard to get at but maybe it causes problems. I'lll try it for a bit and see. Anyway, now I've got tracks at the bottom and docks at the top.
Woo Hoo!
Rob Mack