How do I disable automatic hot pixel correction in ACR?

Question

OK - I'm really conused here...
I just got a Nikon D800E and on my first day of shooting I noticed a hot pixel spot in my images in Bridge.  The when I opened the files in ACR, the hot pixel spot was gone.  Apparently this is a "feature" of ACR: it automatically replaces hot pixels with RGB values from neighbring pixels.  (So those of you who think you have no hot pixels, think again  - you might be shielded from the truth!  I find this fact very disconcerting, but that's a separate issue...).
The problem is that I can't tell how many hot pixels there are.  Based on the image in Bridge, it would have to be spot of 20 - 30 pixels (maybe even more).  That's unacceptable to me, especially on a $3300 camera.  Sure, maybe a few hot pixels spread around the image, but 20-30 bunched in that one spot, that's unacceptable.
However, I can't figure out how to disable the automatic hot pixel correction in ACR, so I don't know if the issue really is 20 - 30 hot pixels or if Bridge is just doing some type of sub-sampling that makes the problem look a lot worse than it is.  Furthermore, this concerns me greatly because I've been using a D200 for many years and have never seen a single hot pixel issue.  So that says to me that the sensor on my D800E has a bigger hot pixel issue than it should (I realize all sensors have some hot/dead pixels).
So, any help on how to go about figuring this out?  The simplest solution is to disable the automatic hot pixel correction in ACR, but I can't figure out how to do that.  I'm guessing it's not possible.
Thanks,
rgames

Answer 1

MikeKPhoto wrote:
…I was not aware and I have searched the ACR documentation and cannot find a reference, maybe you can point me to where this "well known for years" information is located…
Sorry, I' wouldn't presume to embark on a Google search for you, as I'm sure you can do that yourself, MikeKPhoto..
What I can tell you, without a question, is that it was discussed at length in these forums during the earliest versions of ACR eight or nine years ago or so, and I remember participating in a discussion of the feature myself with other Pentax users in the Pentax SLR Talk forum on DPReview around 2003 or 2004.
I found one such message from 2006 (see below) but I'm sure I was involved in earlier discussions a few years earlier:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=19247067
Forum 
Pentax SLR Talk
Subject 
Re: As my istD gets older...  [SIMILAR]
Posted by 
Zaldidun
Date/Time 
2:09:06 PM, Tuesday, July 18, 2006 (GMT)
Interesting. It's possible that my camera does have a few bad pixels, but I'd never see them because I shoot RAW exclusively and Adobe Camera Raw maps them out on the fly.
One of these days, when I'm feeling masochistic, I guess, I'll try the Pentax software to convert a test image. Or maybe not. 
(emphasis added)