Go to the aquasuite > settings tab, scroll down to 'Application startup' and select 'Minimize at startup'. Hopefully that will ease your annoyance level. ([attach]8410[/attach])
yeah, I had enabled that but it wasn't clear that it also hides the splash screen. I'm still after a way of disabling the splash screen though. Quite why application developers can't just display 'loading...' inside the main window and feel the need to waste development time creating annoying splash screens is beyond me.
Thanks.