How do I have the stage faded when I enter a symbol?

Found the answer, after looking for an answer to the same problem and finding this thread.     Solution is to hit this new camera icon just under the timeline.  Looks like it's default as on, when you turn it off, Flash acts normal. 

Is there any word on when there may be some kind of fix for this? I feel like there should be some way to implement edit in place without having to turn off camera, because despite that I still need to view where I'm animating, and I've I've already moved symbols all around all over the place from the original position once I turn the camera off, then I can't accurately animate where things SHOULD be in reference to the rest of the animation.

In this way, it's just better to not have a camera at all and just animate using one large symbol composition that pretends to be a camera!

The mode that you're describing is called Edit-in-place mode for Symbol editing.

This mode is disabled if either Camera or Advanced Layers or Layer Depth is enabled. You can turn off those functionalities temporarily to use edit-in-place mode.

At the top of the stage, when you go into a symbol, does it say "Scene 1 > your symbol name"? Or does it only say your symbol name?

from the main timeline, double click the symbol you want to edit.