Dave,
Your analogies always crack me up! But I’m the guy who opens up the diff to see how it works (and hope I can put it back the way I found it before my wife needs the car). Seriously, if Adobe says you can work with native p2 (and I happily do every day, this issue not withstanding) then I guess it seems like this shouldn’t be happening, or at least someone should be looking into why it does…