Hi Monty,
My name is Remi McGill, I'm the UX designer here at Audiokinetic. I'm sorry about this but I checked in with people here on the Wwise team and currently there isn't a way to do this right now other than this cumbersome back and forth workflow.
At the same time I wanted to let you know that we consider this an important problem to fix (and has been reported by many other people) and we plan to fix this in the future when we do some newer UI work, but it will be a while before this happens.
Thanks again for posting your question and please let us know if you have any other issues.
Cheers,
Remi