'File type being selected by keystroke' feature gone?

A minor thing, but still disappointing that it may be gone...
In previous versions, when in the file requester, with the File Type field focused, I could type the first letter of the format I wanted (ex. J for Jpeg), and it would select it. That was a nice little feature that sped up the saving process (...didn't have to open up the File Type pulldown, and scroll through the selections until I found the one I wanted).
Is that now gone in CS3 (extended), or is there some setting I can change to get that back?

Ah, I figured it out... I have to click the Use OS Dialog button. For some reason, the Adobe dialog doesn't have that feature (...what's the difference between them anyway?!)

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I have a Bitmap picture in which I call GetBitmapFromFile right after this popupfile select. So I want the user to pick one of the folowing filetypes seen below.
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12255418/as3-air-browse-for-file-on-sd-card
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12257626/as3-get-zip-file-on-phone-from-app-file-path-t hen-unzip
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