Matt,
I recently asked the same question, and the help screens were no help. I got the correct answer like you did from the discussion group. What is disheartening is that Autodesk continues to make unnecessary changes to the basic AutoCAD functions, and puts aggravating things like this out that make us waste hours trying to get the program back to a useful tool , not some programming nerd's gameboy. Why they can't leave the system defaults to what people are used to, advise us of "improvements", and let us try them out for ourselves, when we have time, and are not trying to meet a deadline, only to be confounded by some inane item like this.
There, I feel better already.