In Place structure bundle/unbundle behaviour

Hi all,
I have noticed unexpected behaviour of the in place structure at edit time. This VI illustrates the behaviour I see. Essentially, if you add items into the cluster above the element being unbundled in the structure, the structure changes the element it is operating on. This is not seen with the while loop. This is causing me a headache, but is it a bug, or expected? Does anyone agree this is a bug?
Kind regards,
Michael.
Attachments:
In Place Behaviour.vi ‏6 KB
After adding dbl 2.png ‏16 KB
Original.png ‏15 KB

NI please say this is a bug and fix it. I was just bitten by this and my code did not break because the data type of the Nth-1 item was the same as the Nth item.
I use the unbundle and bundle to modify a value in the cluster based on the name of the data which is how clusters work. I then do the same operation on the same data in the IPE structure.
If you make the bundle grow by one, and add an item to it, the VI will be runable, but the two operations are no longer the same because the IPE is now modifying different data.
Attached is my exampe saved in 2013 (not SP1).
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