Corel Paint Shop Pro is suddenly compressing my images without me asking it to.

If I select to save it in png, the file name will say image1.pic, instead of image1.png. I selected options in the save box, and it has some compression options, but there is nothing to click to STOP it from compressing, just options on how I'd like it compressed.

I am extremely frustrated, as I use this program nearly every day as a photographer, and I don't want to have to figure out what is the higher version of the file I actually want so I can save as THAT image file, so that it will end up really as the one I wanted. Does this make sense?

I want .PNG files so I have to save them initially as .PPM files so that it will automatically compress to .PNG files... IT SHOULD be saving as .PNG files when I SELECT .PNG files, like it always has. BUT IT ISN'T!

I took a screencap of the save as... box:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17...o/Image1-4.jpg