Bug or Feature? Eject selected dmg closes Finder window

In Leopard (on my machine at least), if you
1. mount a dmg,
2. select this dmg in the sidebar of a previously opened Finder window (not the new one that pops up with the mount), and then
3. click the eject icon,
the host Finder window will close as the dmg unmounts. Is this a bug, or a feature?
In Tiger, if you do this the window remains open, and your mounted devices will be shown in the second column. While this could be mildly confusing (the devices show up twice in the left-right hierarchy), at least you are left with a Finder window and a chance for further navigation.
If this is a feature in Leopard, I think it's a questionable call: there you are with a single Finder window open, then poof, you've got nothing and it looks like the window's been lost due to a crash. Perhaps you could argue that since you selected the dmg, ejecting it could only mean you want to close the host window, since your selection will be gone and what the window should show is undefined. Actually, nah, this doesn't make sense to me for an advanced interface.
Of course, maybe this is just something afflicting me...

Don't know whether to classify it as a bug or a feature. The old behavior was sorta illogical, the new behavior is logical, but silly. Anyway, if the thing being ejected (dmg or drive or whatever) is selected so that the Finder window is displaying its contents, and you eject it then window closes. If something else is selected and you eject whatever by clicking just the eject button next to it (but don't select it), the window doesn't close because the object ejected wasn't the window being displayed. Logical. New. Annoying.
Francine
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