Found this app on my local users group - ASM 2.0x. It's a great utility to ease me into independence from the dock.
ASM is the reincarnation of the application switcher menu. It's highly customizable and offers some nice extra features, such as "Classic Window Mode" (orders all windows of an application to front when it becomes active) or "Single Application Mode" (automatically hides applications other than the front-most one).
The fact that its free makes it even better. Download it from their web site. The developer makes the source code available and you can modify it if you want. Very cool!
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20011126031741961