How do I stop nodes from being listed on the vocabulary pages?

I am using taxonomy_menu to link to my vocabulary and terms, and the menu is fine. The trouble I have with it is that when you click on a category, it brings you to a page that lists all of the nodes currently in that category descending from most recent. Then if you click on a sub-category it does the same for the subcategory. It's rather confusing and I have to confess pretty poor organization for a site unless you're looking for a blog.

I'm using taxonomy_context, also, which displays the description of the term, a list of children terms and all nodes associated with that term when you click on the term under an article title. This would be okay if it was also true for vocabulary, but as far as I can tell you can't accomplish this with vocabulary, only terms.

What I'm looking for really is a way to have a taxonomy dynamically represented in the menu, where I can click the vocabulary/term and get a listing of links into subcategories of that vocabulary/term without the complete listing of nodes until I get to the final term associated with the node(s).

So a couple questions:

Am I perhaps misunderstanding the taxonomy system and this fundamental misunderstanding is leading me to not being able to accomplish my goal?

Is there a module available that will help me accomplish my goal or am I going to have to hand-code this?