Pen tool should only affect selected points or segments

I think that it has already been suggested, but i don't enjoy the pen tool adding segments to unselected anchor points,
Many times i want to snap a point to other point, not connecting the segments- For instance when colorizing a open lineart or working on a road map.
I just want to put my new anchor point on top of an unselected anchor point (yes, like in Freehand)
I know that i could lock objects, but i find the lock/unlock method is cumbersome and slow.
I think that at least it should be an option in preferences to toggle this behavior (like there's one for "disable auto/add delete", a very similar behavior)

Re-installing Fireworks seems to have done the trick.
Just posting this solution for the rare few that may ever have this problem... I have no idea what was wrong, though. I actually couldn't click ANYTHING - the zoom tool didn't work either unless I clicked and dragged.
Scratch all that, re-installing had no effect whatsoever.
The problem is with a program I have running, SweetFM that plays music from Last.fm. There seems to be some sort of conflict between it and Fireworks! So yeah... don't run SweetFM while using Fireworks, I guess.

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