Device Switch Copies Talk Time ?

Morning,
I was just wondering if anyone has come across this issue as I was trying to return a Pearl that I'd purchased on Friday last week and the store policy states that within 15 days & under 15 mins of talk time they will take back a phone.  When I went into the store to do so they said I had over 7 hrs of talk time on the pearl that I'd just purchased.  Well after much frustration and calls to my carrier they allowed me to purchase the new Curve.  At the end of the whole ordeal the store manager wanted me to ensure the new phone had 0 mins of talk time and lo and behold after they'd performed the data switch from the pearl to the curve it showed the 7 hrs of talk time on the Brand New curve.  They did not know and neither did I that the Device Switch procedure that we'd originally done from an old Curve to the Pearl had copied my 7 hrs of talk time from my original curve and it's carried over to the pearl and now to the new curve. 
Needless to say it causes much frustration to anyone who is trying to return a phone and the store's policy is such as mine.  Anyone who doesn't know about this little glitch in the device switch are going to encounter this problem.  Sorry for the long expaination but I'm still frustrated that I spent almost 2 hrs arguing with the store about an issue that's clearly not valid.  Is there a way to prevent copying the talk time from phone to phone ?
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I reading more on the device switch wizard it does a COMPLETE device backup and then transfers to the new
phone. This would tell me the call logs are copied as well.
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