Text Wrap disables vertical justification

Hi,
I am using InDesign CS3 5.0.4 on Windows XP Pro SP3.
I have the following problem: I have a text frame with vertical centrered text in it. Now when I put some object with text wrap near it, the vertical justification is just ignored (also blanked out in text frame options) and the text justifies at the top of the text frame. I think this is very annoying and I don't understand why this works the way it does. I remember this problem also ocurred in QuarkXPress but I hoped Adobe would do it better :)
I hope someone can explain this to me. Thanks.
Frank

How near is near? If the object is too close to the text for comfort it's going to need text wrap or there'll be a
collision. And vertical justification will be lost.
Does the object span the full depth of the text frame? If so, just ignore text wrap, narrow the text frame and take its
edge away from the object. If the object cuts into the text frame so some lines are wrapped and others are not, then the
vertical justification will be lost.
You could fiddle it by eye by breaking the text into three frames, with the text in the top frame aligned to the bottom,
the text in the middle and bottom frame aligned to the top. Then align the text in all the frames to the same baseline
grid (you can set a grid for each frame), and jiggle the depths appropriately.
k

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