After we exchanged the emails, Darren appeared in my office and we talked it over. We came to the conclusion that "deleting" really is removing something from the system, including any memory about the system (ie server ID). If admins want to retain information, they can always just disable a server, do something and then re-enable.
Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
