AIR crashes while debugging in Flex

I’m developing an AIR application on Flex 3.

When a runtime error occurs while debugging, the AIR environment crashes. Windows will then complain ‘adl.exe stopped working’ and I will have to laborously shut down the application. For the same reason, breakpoints are useless - they just cause the application to crash.

So, is there a safe way to debug an application, where instead of crashing like a regular Windows application it would just shut down?

Thank you.