Screen whiteout on save with Fireworks CS5

Whenever I save a PNG in Fireworks CS5, the canvas undergoes a whiteout effect – the document seems to be fading out to indicate that it can't be edited during the save process.
This sudden flash is distressing when working on documents that have predominantly darker hues. It's worst at night when the screen is the brightest thing around. It basically causes your eyes to dilate and then un-dilate rapidly, which is kind of disorienting.
Is there any way to disable this "feature"? It's physiologically upsetting. No other application that I know of has this behavior and other CS5 apps definitely don't do it. This is not a helpful UI cue; on the contrary, it's quite irritating to my eyes.

Two case scenerios this comes in handy (that I can think of):
1. multiple document scenerios, particularly larger files that 'may' take awhile to save. the feature allows you to toggle/work on another document while the other is 'saving'.
2. in single document cases, ever sit next to a person at a computer is is 'click happy'? They click 'away' before the 'triggered' action is complete and freak out why the screen has gone amuck ('non-responding, out of memory, freezes etc). This happens in any program. The feature acts as a 'preventive' measure to ensure the triggered 'save' completes without the end user attempting another forced action.
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