We are a fairly large LD customer (Enterprise Plus, 797100 pts). Apparently, that entitles us to a Customer Success Manager, who we've recently met. I alerted him to this issue and received more info today.
According to him, we will see this issue addressed in the next component patch, which will be released "in a month or so". I am hoping to get my hands on it a little early to test.
zman - have you heard anything back on your end? I was told that we are the only two folks to have reported the issue and the only reason it made it into the CP was because of our relative size.
Also, 9.6 SP2 is slated for release around Interchange.