Wow. That should be default. I obviously never even tried to google the issue. THANKS!

...now I just need to figure out how to make nautilus-open-terminal open a guake terminal tab instead and I'm in UI nirvana (too bad it's probably gonna take 4+ hrs X( )

This might help: http://askubuntu.com/questions/70540/how-can-i-set-default-t...