Suppressing progress dialog when importing Tagged Text?

Howdy:
I'm using the Adobe Tagged Text import provider to place text in a document. I'm making the call to iImportProvider->ImportThis() with the kSuppressUI flag set. Even though the flag is set, InDesign is still displaying the progress dialog. Does anybody know how to keep that from happening? I don't see anything in the documentation about this.
Thanks,
Noel Williams

Hello:
I have the same problem that Noel.
I'm using:
* prov->ImportThis(database, stream, kSuppressUI, &contentUIDRef);
* prov->ImportThis(database, stream, K2::kSuppressUI, &contentUIDRef);
* prov->ImportThis(database, stream, (K2::UIFlags)0, &contentUIDRef);
But the progress Dialog appears.
This problem is critical for me.

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