Services in Safari 4

I make frequent use of WordService in Safari, specifically the Rotate-13 function, as a forum I frequent commonly uses Rot13 for spoilers when discussing games and such.
In previous versions of Safari (including 4.0 beta), I was able to select rendered text and rotate it in place. Since upgrading to 4.0 final, all of the options in the Convert service are grayed out unless I've selected editable text, meaning if I want to read a Rot13'd post, I have to click the Reply button, copy/paste it to another document, etc. So what used to be a really awesome feature has now become "useful, but annoying." I'm pretty sure this used to work in Adium chat logs as well, but now it doesn't, so maybe it has to do with WebKit itself.
Is this a new bug, or did they finally fix a (desirable) bug from previous versions, or what? Does anyone even know what I'm talking about? lol

It's not a problem with the service itself, but rather a change in the way that Safari/WebKit handles text. Like I said, it worked just fine until this most recent update. It's definitely related to changes in Safari/WebKit, as now I get the same result with other services as well. WordService was just an example (and the service I use more than any other, save CalcService).
Safari/WebKit used to let me perform actions on rendered text, and now it doesn't.

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