Hello Jean,
Thank you again for your reply, and I'm sorry to have taken so long to respond to you. I've been extremely busy with many things and fighting with playmaker and unity has had to wait.
Instead of providing media relating to my issue, I believe that the answer to one [hopefully] simple question could solve all of my issues:
How do I open Playmaker as an embedded window in Unity?
When you open Unity with a blank project, it will begin with a "scene" window open in the viewer. You can change the layout of these windows in the windows tab under "layouts". Also in the windows tab, you can choose from several different windows, like scene, game, inspector, hierarchy, project, etc. When clicked, these open new windows, but they 'float' above the Unity UI. To avoid this floatation, you can right click a windows tab that is already open in the viewer (e.g. "scene"), and select "add tab." Selecting any of the options from the dropdown menu that is created from this will create a new window tab in your viewer (e.g. "game").
Now, all of the Playmaker tutorials I see have a Playmaker window tab open in the viewer, and it is not floating. I cannot figure out how this is possible. I have access to playmaker and all of its resources, but can only get them through 'floating' windows.
I hope I have simplified my inquiry, but if it is still necessary, I'll upload some media to demonstrate my confusion.
Thank you!