turning off wings annoying habit

[crystalwizard]

Wings has a very annoying habit.

Every time I hit space to unselect everything, wings promptly highlits vertex/edge/face and expects me to fight with the cusor to highlight what I want it to act on.

How do I turn this off?

If I have selected vertex, even after I hit space bar, I want to keep working on vertexs until I choose something else.

There are plenty of times when I am working on an object that I can't zoom in all that close on and I don't need to have to fight the cusor until it just happens to highlight the right thing.

And I don't want to have to stop my work flow, click on the thing I had already selected to work on, and then go back to what I was doing.

So while I understand it might be useful behaviour for some people for wings to do this, for me its a serious problem.

I really want to turn this off. Is there anyway to do so?