Adrian -

This work around, like so many others mentioned in this thread is all because of a change that your Developers team made about a year and a half ago when they inserted code in the desktop versions of QB that attempts to force users to log onto an Intuit account in order to proceed to use QB Desktop. This is a widely hated change. So, while you're having that chat with the Developers team tell them that they should write a patch that does only one thing, just this one and no other, it removes the hated log in to Intuit code from the Desktop versions.

Pretty simple request.