Disable Spaces animation?

I'm relatively new to MacOS. I just started using Spaces the other day and I find it very useful for organizing my desktop. However, the animated sliding from one virtual screen to another makes me dizzy (I'm serious). I'm doing some development and have a bunch of editor windows in one "space" and XCode in another, so I'm often switching back and forth quite a bit. It's much more efficient than having all the windows on one desktop, but after doing that for a while, my head is spinning. Is there a way to disable that animation?

Sorry to reply without helpful advice. I google this question almost weekly and don't believe there's a work-around yet. I just want to second your request. This is my #1 feature request for 10.5. Power users like the eye candy as much as everyone else -- except for when is slows us down. I have 8 spaces mapped to keyboard shortcuts (using Fastscripts) so I don't even have to leave to home row to select a specific space. The animation provides no useful information if one knows exactly where one is going before even making the selection. It only slows things down and distracts. This may seem trivial, but some of us switch spaces perhaps 100 times or more per day. Workspace management is one of the few places where Gnome and KDE beat the OSX gui, IMHO.

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