Comment 2 for bug 257289

I can confirm 1 node too many in Ellipse, Rectangle and Star tool, on fedora 9, Inkscape build 19587.

I can't confirm the simplify path part. Do you have any reason to believe those two problems are connected? If not please report it in another bug and give a more detailed steps to reproduce.
I created a path with a pencil tool, simplified it, there was one point where 2 nodes were overlapping but I couldn't get 3 nodes there after refocus.