Uh? Neither Joshua Kehn nor I wrote the section you quoted above, Mark
Jackson did. I know I certainly don't take Joshua's disapproval of
styled text as a personal attack, and I hope he doesn't take my feeling
that styled text is actually important as an attack on him.

 I never stated that. Ever.
For the official record I can duplicate the bug. I just don't make it a habit of tabbing into my plain text editor before pasting rich text into another application.

I really, really apologize to you guys for misquoting you.  I must have grabbed the name from the messages above or below.  I think I'll just stick to technical answers from now on.  :)

Regarding the bug, I am running TM 1.5.10 1623 on OS X 10.6.6 (MB Alum) and can completely confirm that the bug doesn't exist as it has been described*, at least on my system.  Possibly you are running a different build?

* I can copy rich text and interact with TM all I want and the pasteboard retains 100% of the richness (styling).

Brandon