New adjustment brush bug

When setting values for a new adjustment brush, most values are not retained when changing the image being worked on.
Steps to reproduce:
- Select more than one image to work on in library, and then enter develop
- Create a new adjustment brush with non-zero setting for exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, clarity, and saturation
- Apply strokes with the brush to the current image
- Change the image you are working on in develop
Expected behavior (as in previous versions of Lightroom)
- All the settings applied to the new brush in the previous image are retained
Actual behavior
- Only the modified setting for exposure is retained - all other settings have reverted to zero and must be reentered on each image
System used: 64 bit Windows 7 running on an IMac under Bootcamp with 12 GB of RAM
Surely this is not intended behavior. This doubles my work using the adjustment brush in my typical workflow.

After playing around with effect presets, I now understand what is going on, and I suspect it is intended, but I still don't like it! In Lightroom 3, the default selection in the effects popup is 'Custom', which accepts whatever settings you have entered to a new adjustment brush. When you move on to another image, unless you change it, 'Custom' remains the default selection for the effects pop-up, and the settings you entered for your most recent new adjustment brush 'stick' and appear as the default. In Lightroom 4, the 'Custom' choice in the effects pop-up has gone away, and the first choice that appears in the pop-up list becomes the one that is applied by default to the new adjustment brush, which happens to be the 'Exposure' effect, which has a setting for exposure only, which is why it is the one and only one setting that reappears.
I expect that when I create a new adjustment brush, without specifically selecting an effect, it will be truely new with all settings at zero! The current behavior is very unintuitive. It should not pick up any defaults, particularly by just picking up the settings from whatever effect happens to be the first one in the effects popup list! I either want the 'Custom' all zeros default back, or at least to have no effect applied by default to the new brush and have settings applied to the brush if and only if an effect is selected from the pop-up.

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