I've finally managed to reproduce this (with the aid of some fairly arcane kvm options: -hda t.img -usb -drive file=precise- desktop-i386.iso,if=none,id=b,boot=on -device usb-storage,drive=b). Embarrassingly, it's a case of missing parentheses.
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