Premine seems to be an issue, Why is notsoshifty veiwing from a negitive angle... He says even him self that it could, how it is now end up with an infinate number of coins.  So I can mearly assume his mind, instantantly latched on to the easiest caculaction avalable(not saying easy in terms of simple).  You assume the patch that will be added will be the same as the patch used on Bitcoin!  It appears correct the code at this stage is not consistant with the Dev team statements.  Saying that, the amount of time to sort the issue, an the knowlege that the knowlege to do so, is out there.  Kind of makes your concerns negligible at this stage of the coins overall developement!  Maybe worth looking out to see if a fix has been applied closer to the time the issue is expected, if it is really that important to you. Granted you do know what you are talking about and you have been around for a while, but please don't mis-use your knowlege to slam others, maybe