Save for web and using a alpha channel to optimise a jpg? Is it missing in CS4/5+ ?

Hi guys,
I have just tried to do an old technique I used to use to reduce the szie of big background images, and they was to make a alpha channel and specify which areas of the image you want to be kept at the highest quality and what areas you wanted it to be low quality.
I dont seem to be able to find it anywhere in the "Save for web" screen.
This post here suggests it might have been dumped after CS3???
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/370291
Any help would be great

As far as i know those features were removed from Save for Web after cs3.
MTSTUNER

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> Ive used the slice tool to mark out the images for
exporting from my Fireworks
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>
> Does Fireworks have a 'Save for Web and Devices' feature
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> does? I want to have the 4-up display where you can see
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