OK, I love WinXP to death, but it is really annoying me with something it keeps doing. I put my taskbar on auto-hide, so I can use more of my screen. Whenever a window that does not have focus has some activity, the taskbar pops up and that program's button flashes until I put focus on it. This in itself is annoying, but it's compounded when I'm trying to do something. In mIRC it covers up the editbox, in AGN it covers up some of the textbox, and it distracts me.

Does anyone know of any way to get the stupid taskbar to quit telling me something happened in other windows?