Symbols jumping in the dock

Hi
When I open a program like Pages I'm asked to choose a template. If I'm using another program while Pages is opening the Pages symbols starts to jump in the dock. This is a bit annoying when you are using GarageBand for instance cause it disturbs the other programs (which I by the way can't see why it should on a fast MacBook).
Is there any way to make the symbols stop jumping when they want my attention and let me know that I have to make a choice in the certain program in another way?
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

..."Is there any way to make the symbols stop jumping when they want my attention and let me know that I have to make a choice in the certain program in another way?"...
I don't know of any built-in alternative notification methods, but there is a setting to turn off the "bouncing" that "Dock" icons do for "alert" purposes (this is separate from the bouncing for app launches). Try opening "/Applications" > "Utilities" > "Terminal.app" and entering these commands:<pre>defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool true
osascript -e 'tell application "Dock" to quit'</pre>To reverse the change, just repeat the commands, using 'false' instead of 'true'.

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