Scaling objects without scaling corner effects

When I scaled an object with Command-> and Command-< in CS3 (Mac), the corner effects would not be scaled. If I had 4mm round corners, they would still be 4 mm after scaling the object. In CS4 however, the corner effects are scaled too. Is there a simple way to scale an object WITHOUT the corner effects? I'm sure it's possible, but I can't find the answer...

Thanks, but that only works when you click and drag to scale. I am talking about scaling with key's only: cmd-< and cmd->. I can't see an option or anything to use those keys and NOT scale corner effects. Okay, of course you could say 'Well, why don't you click and drag then!' but there is a specific document I have to work on every week that almost requires me to use the key commands for scaling.

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