"speeding up" opening dialogs etc.

When I open many dialogs such as the print dialog in any application it 'rolls' down the window rather than just appearing straight away. Same with opening something like quick look.
OK, this looks great, and as I'm on a Mac Pro then there isn't a problem with it slowing down the Mac.
However, in some applications I have to bring up a lot of dialogs with short cut keys and I'd like the dialogs to just appear rather than roll down - is there any setting which means dialog boxes just appear without rolling down?
I'm on the latest lepoard.

You might want to try getting this application: http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/

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Is there any error message when you try to map network Drive manually? It would be better to provide more details about error message.
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