I just re-opened this bug as I am working with Inkscape 0.47pre4 and the exact behaviour as described by ~suv in post 2 is back, so the fix has gone haywire somewhere.
I just re-opened this bug as I am working with Inkscape 0.47pre4 and the exact behaviour as described by ~suv in post 2 is back, so the fix has gone haywire somewhere.