Outline Stroke in cs4 adds unwanted duplicate/overlapping point, why?

When I create an outline of a line, say a simple 2 point straight line, I get the result of a filled 4 point rectangle, or so it would seem. When I individually drag each point out using the direct selection tool I find that there are actually 5 points - 2 are sitting on top of each other. Does anyone else have or has had this problem.

This is fixed in CS 5.
Notice that the stroke panel's drop down now reads mm when you set strokes to mm
Notice that the stroke panel's drop down now reads mm when you set strokes to mm
So there are improvements in CS 5 that have never been resolved in the past.
Even in CS 10 I believe the drop down still reads as points and sets the width of the strokes as points and then converts it.
So there has been a lot of hard work.

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