Flickr Publish Service - Inability to Stop "Retreiving Comments for Photostream" Process

I upload a lot of stuff to Flickr and every time my selected photos complete uploading a process kicks off "Retreiving Comments for Photostream". This never seems to do anything and after a time I get this annoying popup which says: "Can't download comments for this collection. Could not contact the Flickr web service. Please check your internet connection." First of all, I do not want to download comments, but I have no user control over preventing it, other than standing by to cancel the process once it starts. Secondly, it appears a change at the Flickr end has broken this functionality anyway.
How do I convey this info to the Adobe staff responsible for the code writing for Lightroom so they can sort this out? I could find no other way apart from this forum to raise this issue.

No, you are not alone. It has been doing that to me for a week or so. May have been going on longer, but I had not posted in a few days.
Annoying since canceling the task by clicking on the X to the right of the progress bar makes it 'go away' but the pop-up still appears a few seconds later.

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It's a bug http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom_4_1_rc2_a_cr_or_lf_n_the_m iddle_of_a_caption_causes_failure_to_connect_to_flickr
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