QuoteIt's strange that this has been an issue for so many virtumart versions and it hasn't been a default setting since...
I'm afraid you are looking at this completely wrongly..
it isn't a bug or a problem - it is an additional feature that you would like to have...
As VM is completely free and maintained and coded purely by voluntary efforts then if you really want this additional feature you must simply wait or do something to have this "jump the queue" and be dealt with quicker than it normally would..
And one way to do that is to contribute to the project by buying a membership -> http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=124355.0
No guarantee that this will give you the feature but it does give you other advantages and more "weight" to your voice.. ;)