Screen Darkens When Dropping File on Dock Icon

Hello:
This is my first post.
I've been a Mac evangelist since I first started using them in Prepress in 1987.
But there is a feature in Snow Leopard that I absolutely cannot abide.
It's the way the display darkens to a vignetted area in the middle of the screen EVERY time I drop a file on a dock icon. Sometimes it seems to "stick' on this display for a second or two. Sometimes the display darkens and there is a blue Windows-like edge to the dark screen. I hate it.
In a production environment this weird feature is a serious interruption. I can't imagine ANYONE wanting it, requesting it or dreaming it up--even if they are a home user. What useful purpose could this "feature" possibly serve?
Please, please if there is anyone out there who can help me kill this "feature" forever, please give me a hand. Is this Dock Expose gone awry? I have looked up and found all the Kill Dock Expose commands there are out there and none of them work. This horrible "feature" just keeps on going like the ******* EverReady bunny.
It wastes an hour of work time every week if all the seconds it wastes are added up.
Is there anyone out there who can help?
Hoping for freedom from this "feature" in 2001....

Thanks, bd, but I have long since turned off the side buttons in System Prefs in an attempt to stop this from happening.... Also, it doesn't just happen on my machine. I take care of all the Macs here [15] and I can get any of them to do it if I drag a file to a dock icon and hold it over the icon long enough...mine just seems to do it instantly.
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