Saving AIF as AIF in STP3?

Question

Last week I upgraded from STP 1 to STP 3. Lots of changes and I'm not sure that STP 3 works all that well with Snow Leopard. Anyhow, I'm wondering if there's some setting I've missed that allows me to automatically save an .aif file as an .aif file? When I click on save, what used to happen with an .aif file is that it just saved. Now it wants, by default, to save as an .stap file, which then I have to change the .stap to .aif and it will save. A minor extra step, OK, but I'd much prefer the file to save automatically in the format that's it's in, like it used to. Is that possible??
Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

I can see where some of the changes are refinements or, perhaps more properly, refocusing the purpose of particular processes. Enabling or disabling tracks, for example, was new to me and I do find it useful, though it was initially confusing, different as it is from the early STP.
And, to my ear, STP 3 sounds slightly better.
It's also much slower. About 25-30% slower than the earlier version (I may have had 1.5, not sure), both on Snow Leopard.
But, just to take my previous example, you think that after saving a file the program should repeat the immediately previous operation to that file, regardless what the operation was? Save should be save. Period. Repeating an operation takes time and what's so necessary about it? And if it's necessary, then shouldn't the file be saved, again? And then why does the operation re-repeat, ad infinitum? This is improperly designed software that demonstrates many failings, not least the presence of a senior engineer who would check for basic operational flaws.
As I said, Professional software? I think not.