Loading componenets as Lightweight

Is there anyone out there familiar with a workaround for version 2009 loading assemblies as lightweight?  I have all of my options set appropriately and my assemblies still open in lightweight.  That is a problem because some of my properties in my bill of materials do not get updated.  The SolidWorks response was to either do a hard re-load (ctrl-q) or update to sp 4.0.  We have cut costs at my company so we dropped the agreement.  I heard that there is a registry hack that will take care of it.  Please help!!!

Thanks

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