Disable taskbar popups, without stopping scanning?

Just updated to the latest 2010 Norton AV.  I work at home and have roughly 30 some different email addresses which I check through Outlook Express... as these are 'business' emails for various websites you can imagine that I do receive quite a bit of spam/virus emails from the outside world.

 

My problem is that everytime I check my emails I have to wait till the Norton popups in the taskbar are 'finished' till I can start replying to emails as the popup will always take precendence.  So as you can imagine I am there writing an email and all of a sudden the Norton popup becomes the 'top' window and now I have to click back on my email window to continue writing - this process continues until all the 'warning popups' have shown.

 

I realize there is 'silent' mode, however, from my understanding this will turn off protection which I certainly do not want to do since I want the emails to be scanned.

 

Soooooo... is there anyway to disable these notification popups from showing in my taskbar all the time or not?