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All,
As of the next reboot, if you idle out, and are forcibly rented due to idle, when you return you will be in the same spot you left. You will NOT any longer be sent to your Circle room.
Related to this, I moved a post from the general forum to the policy explanations forum about the usage of idle/linkdead to get out of a situation, and added my comments to Tomasz's.
-- Flash