Stack animation in Lightroom 1.1

Lightroom 1.1 has a nice feature while stacking images. An animation flips the images together. That looks nice but slows the process down, because you need to wait for the next stack until the animation has been finished.
Does someone has an idea how to switch this feature off ?

Create a new master catalog or open an existing catalog that you want to be the master then use the "Import from Catalog" command (File menu) to import your other catlogs into the master.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?3mgxbz9n2a3
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