Bug or Limitiation by Design

First let me start by saying that I am using a WRT54G v5 and I know that this is a wireless router. I am posting here because I have disabled the wireless and the problem I am having is not related to the wireless at all and is either a bug in the router or a limitation by design.
I have the following setup. On my wan interface I have a static IP address of xxx.xxx.0.26 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.248 and a default GW of xxx.xxx.0.25. This network connects back to my ISP and they have no problem getting to my router and I have no problem getting back to them.
On the LAN side of the router I have setup the router in "router" mode and not "gateway" mode so it is doing no NAT. The LAN IP address is xxx.xxx.6.33 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.240. Other devices on my internal network use the xxx.xxx.6.33 as the default GW. They are able to connect to the gateway fine.
Here is where the problems begin. Looking at the routing table of the linksys I see routes that looks like this.
Network Subnet Mask Destination Interface
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 xxx.xxx.0.25 WAN
xxx.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 xxx.xxx.6.33 Lan & Wireless
xxx.xxx.6.33 255.255.255.240 xxx.xxx.6.33 Lan & Wireless
xxx.xxx.0.24 255.255.255.248 xxx.xxx.0.25 WAN
The problem is the route xx.0.0.0 which limits me from routing to the entire class A network beginning with xxx. There is no way I can find to remove this route.
I did some more testing using the private network ranges and it seems that the route changes depending on the class of the first number. The 10.x.x.x networks creates a 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 route, the 172.x.x.x create a 172.x.0.0/255.255.0.0 route and the 192.168.x.x networks creates a 192.168.x.0/255.255.255.0 route.
Now this makes no sense in the modern days classless routing to send a whole class A B or C subnet to the Lan and Wireless interface regardless of the subnet mask on the internal LAN inteface. I cannot imaging this device is doing classful routing and if it is why?
None of this would be a problem if I was not using public IP addresses on my LAN interface. I don't care if I cannot get to other private networks but by using this device with public IP's on the LAN I have effectively stopped communications to my ISP and every other person on the xxx.0.0.0 network.
So it can either be one of two things. A bug or a limitation by design to force me to buy a more expensive cisco router that does not have this problem. Either way the old WRT54G that I installed enhanced linux firmwares never had this problem so it looks like I will be buying WRT54GL's from now on or switching to different manufacturer.
If anybody can think of something to check I would apprecate it. I am at wits end with this device and have already ordered a WRT54GL that I am putting enhanced firmware on but I would like to know if this device can handle my needs out of the box and if so what is the trick.

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