Im using 2008 and looking in the search function usualy gives me what i'm after, eg typing in render globals, the second hit, render settings starts of by saying that it was formally Render globals.
Its a pain when your starting out and getting confused but it is there, you just have to go through a bit of text to get to it, and it might be a pain to find, especially when things change all the time.
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