Reply To: Document-specific settings in the overall general preferences?

It's confusing that with a document open some of the Preferences are in fact document settings, while others are “global”.

However, if you have particular settings you would like to see in new documents (it's not retro-active), you can close all of your documents and adjust the settings to taste. Settings changed without any open document automatically become the default for new documents.

I love this behavior, and for example I have since long abandoned the intrusive blue lines of the Baseline grid for more eye-friendly Grid Green.

But it certainly would be an improvement if the Preferences were divided into Application and Document sections. All you can do is post a Feature Request at Adobe, and hope it will be implemented in CS7 …