I am a bit of an ego maniac at times, and having a thread with my name in the title should have drawn my attention but alas, I missed it desite answering every thread on the first page two days running. Ah well. Rich was kind enough to email me on this subject so I can reply with gusto promptness.
It sounds like a bug, it sounds like it has been confirmed by a second party, and it sounds like the kind of thing I would have missed in testing the final EA versions. As it stands, it is a very high priority fix (almost critical), and it also sounds very easy to fix too. I cannot say when a patch will be released, but if you ensure this report makes it to the internal bugbase (public spokesdude hunt continues afaik), it will be fixed before V1.
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