Pressing ESC sends cursor to center of screen...how to disable?

I really have no idea if this is a W530 setting, Windows setting, or has to do with the use of an external monitor, mouse and keyboard via the mini dock. I haven't found the setting anywhere, but it's driving me nuts. Does anyone know how to disable this behavior?

Ok, I fixed it. In the split second amount of time between the use of the dock and the game loading I was able to quickly quit the game. Only took me about thirty times :-)

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Thanks Carolyn,
I am attaching a screenshot here for you to see that this setting was already set to what you suggested. I didn't need to change it as it was like this even before I post this message.
So the problem still presists and unfortunately your suggestion is not a solution to this probelm.
Last night I did more reseach and found a discussion in Adobe website, it seems a lot of other people have the same issue, and even started a discussion in Adobe website about it. But unfortunately Adobe refuses to address it and enable the end user at least to have an option to turn this message off from displaying permanently on his/her computer.
I am writing down the url links for the two posts regarding this issue on Adobe's website:
Link #1: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/921270
Link #2: https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3058752
Hopefully more people will get involved and ultimately we will either get Adobe's attention, or someone will find a "hack" and post it here for all of us. I have found some suggested "hacks" for Windows environment (you can simply google it, I am sure you will find them too). But so far I haven't seen anything for Mac's Safari browser.
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