Empathy does not remember previous status

Binary package hint: empathy

I start Empathy and it automatically connects to all my accounts. My status is set to the generic "Available". I create a custom status message for "Available", and it works well. Then I completely quit Empathy. A while later I re-start Empathy, and my status has been reset back to the generic "Available". The same is true if I set my Empathy status to the generic "Away". If I quit and re-start Empathy, my status is reset to the generic "Available".

The latter may be a "feature" (i.e. a specific design decision), but the former situation definitely seems like a bug. What I expect to happen: My custom status message is preserved, even if I quit Empathy. This is especially true if I created a "Saved Preset" custom message.

Ubuntu Lucid amd64 with all updates to-date.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.30.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 21 18:30:16 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy