Duplicate Slugs

Is there a way around that automatic incrementing? I have posts with the same slug, but on different dates, and it automatically appended a “-2” to it even though there would be no clash. And it won’t let me remove it – if i try to add it, it either doesn’t change or it gets added right back.

I’ve run into this both in my own WP 1.5-era install and my WP.com blog.

Thanks, Kafkaesqui. That plugin should do the trick on my own site. I wonder if there will be any way around it on wordpress.com blogs.

edit:
Just found wpc/forums and posted there:
http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=98&replies=1