CS4 - scroll timeline view to playhead

I am in process of updating my systems from PPro2 to CS4.
With the timeline selected:
I mark both in and out points in the timeline. I use the hot key for "Go To In Point", then zoom in and the timeline view stays centered on the in point, moving the out point outside of timeline view. If I use the hot key for "Go To Out Point" with the timeline selected, the playhead disappears as it moves to the right but the timeline view does not follow... it remains at the in point.
With the Program Monitor selected:
If I use the "Go To" buttons on the Program Monitor, the zoomed timeline view does jump to the playhead position as expected.
Also If I have the Program Monitor selected instead of the timeline, the hot keys for the "GoTo' functions work as expected and the zoomed timeline view does jump to the playhead.
It appears that with the timeline selected, a hot key command to "Go To' in or out does not scroll the timeline view as in PPro2.
Am I missing something?

It appears that with the timeline selected, a hot key command to "Go To' in or out does not scroll the timeline view as in PPro2.
Sad, but true. I've taken to slapping the Space Bar twice to get the zoomed-in timeline view to move to general vicinity of the outpoint, after using the Go To Outpoint key command. Very annoying. It is a bug, I would say, so be sure to file a bug report. Not likely we'll see another update for CS4, but perhaps they'll see fit to rectify the problem for CS5 (or 6...).

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