Can Dependent Files be disabled in CS5?

I was never able to resolve our issue in CS4 with Dependent Files causing problems with older files replacing newer files on our server. When a file is opened, it automatically opens dependent files with it without us noticing. Then one of us will manually open and edit one of those dependent files. Then when the first file is changed and saved, its older instance of the dependent file replaces the changes we just made to that file. I have the option for Dependent Files to "prompt on put/check in" selected, but I get nothing. I would like to know if CS5 has the ability to disable the Dependent Files "feature" entirely (which is the solution my boss and I would ideally prefer). If so, we're ready to upgrade. Otherwise this will be the iteration we begin shopping around. Dreamweaver is amazing, but we are simply wasting too many hours having to re-code or simply saying only one of us can code at a time.

Nancy, this is how we work on our internal network and how we would like to work on our remote server. Internally, we can simply open the file structure in windows explorer, opening whichever files we need as we need them. He can work on one file and I can work on another in the same directory without having to worry about my work messing up his. As soon as we make a change, the change is live. We prefer this over having a local "testing" environment because a local testing environment means we need to have and maintain a webserver environment with ColdFusion on each of our workstations. We'd rather just work with live files directly. We're quite accustomed to using test files in the live directory to test changes before applying those changes to the in-use system, so we see no need for having a local test environment or synchronization.
Now ideally we'd like to do the same thing with our remote server. I want to simply just open a file, make changes, save the file, and be done. Those changes are live, period. This is so much simpler than...
- Get the file and all dependent files
- Make changes locally
- Upload files back to the server
- Troubleshoot auto-synced files (like dependent files) from my system conflicting with auto-synced files from his system
I understand with a remote server I have to Get/Put the files I want to work on, but I would like it to be apparent when I'm doing both, and I especially don't want files OTHER than the specific ones I'm trying to open being Got/Put. Not to mention there is such a lag every time I save a file back to the server because DW has to go through the list of every single dependent file and image to determine if the ones on the server match the ones on my machine.
Basically, I don't want Dreamweaver to "Manage my site". I just want it to FTP to the server, show me a list of files, and let me open, change, and save them. A lot of people value synchronization, site management, and dependent files... but shouldn't we have the option?

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