Starteam - Parameters for Alternate Applications / Comparison Utility?

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We recently upgraded to Starteam 2008 and it seems that the convention
that Starteam uses for naming temporary files during a file comparison
has changed. Under Tools - Personal Options - File - Alternate
Applications I have set up the following Options for my call to
Winmerge, which we use for our Comparison utility:

/dl $file1 /dr $file2 $file1 $file2

In older versions of Starteam, $file1 and $file2 would pass in a
filename that had some relation to the Branch Revision/Dot Notation of
the file being compared, making it easy to identify which files were
being compared when you were just looking at the Winmerge window as
the values in $file1 and $file2 get placed into the Title Bars of the
Winmerge windows. In Starteam 2008, however, $file1 and $file2 are
unique values that are generated sequentially, so the Winmerge Title
Bars do not have any meaningful value in them.

So in versions prior to 2008, when comparing two revisions of the same
file, you might get something like:

"FileXYZ - Rev - 1" and "FileXYZ - Rev -5" for the values of $file1
and $file2

In Starteam 2008 you get "File1" and "File2" for the values. And if
you then compare those same exact revisions again, the values would be
"File3" and "File4", and continue to increment each time you compare
the files.

Is there any parameter I can use in place of $file1 and $file2 so that
I get some sort of identified for the revision number/dot notation or
even the date modified? Looking through the help section, it seems
that the parameters of $branchtip and $usertip might get me what I
need, but Starteam only seems to populate them when doing a Merge.

Alternatively, is there a way to tell Starteam how to name its
temporary files a different way?

Thanks for any help.