>IC your point. That given my hypothesis about the reference vs. value passing...
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>Hm. Why am I wishing that Tamar Granor would magically jump in here? < s >

Yes, her insight would be very valuable. But I've never seen Tamar on UT, have you? Maybe somebody here can supply the explanation for this behavior, although I suspect Erik may be right: it could be a bug. Maybe he'll post it to MS and we'll get an answer that way.