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Run As prompt to elevate to a domain account in Vista

Okay, so I've searched the internet all over the damn place trying to figure out this aggravating usage problem I'm having with Vista but it seems impossible to sepearate details on Run As and Vista from someone discovering UAC in Vista for the umpteenth time. In our domain we follow recommended security guidelines of elevating to domain admin privledges using the Run As...(Shift + Right Click) for specific domain admins utilities. This would always cause a prompt in XP which let me type in my admin credentials. However, with Vista, this Run As... option is simply assumed now to be "Run As administrator" even when I turn off UAC. Any ideas how to override the default and have it prompt for the account instead of simply defaulting to a local one? Thanks.
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The best answers I have are both of your suggestions. However, I still am not able to make it behave the way I was accustomed to in XP. If I make it prompt for credentials, it does so on all elevations, even for local operations(like opening something in the control panel). Typing out my username and password every time I do anything that trips UAC gets tedious quick. The run as command seems to work best for now, but I miss the ability to selectively prompt for credentials when elevating other programs as well(like IE or Explorer) to troubleshoot  domain user problems without having to make a custom command line shortcut for every app.

I suppose I'll just go back to remotely logging in to a Windows 2003 management box as Vista really has done a great job of screwing things up for admins with this UAC. This is really something they should have fixed in SP1. Thank you for your suggestions though.