Why is my start-up disk showing "Server"?

Here's a snapshot of my disk under System Preferences>Startup Disk:
As you can see, it shows Macintosh HD OS X Sver, 10.8. Although I downloaded the Server package I have not installed it and do not intend on installing it for a couple of months.
What's up? Any help would be appreciated...
Clinton

Oh, I'm not worried - it's been that way since I installed the GM developer seed - and everything is running just fine. I'm just insatiably curious! And I know that I am not running Server at this time - it's sitting in my Applications folder waiting to be installed.
Thanks for the quick reply.
Clinton

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