[whpalmer4]

Yeah, this is certainly inconvenient behavior, and I know of no way to turn it off. What I do is to double-click on the project or on the row handle of one of its actions. This creates a new window focused on that project where I can edit without having the project immediately vanish. When I have completed any changes, I close the window and I am back at the previous view (which will no longer show the project I edited if my changes removed it from the stalled state).