I'd call that a UI problem of the first water, actually: the UI is leading you to believe that something is the case that, well, isn't. Arguably this is often worse than the more usual sort of UI bug that people talk about (i.e., overly complicated/obscure interfaces).
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Date: 11 November 2004 15:28 (UTC)