ICQ Privacy Settings not sticking?

[Evan Platt]

At 12:09 PM 11/26/2007, Mark Doliner wrote:
>It's mostly a bug.  Pidgin changes your ICQ privacy setting on your behalf,
>probably when your status changes, because it's trying to keep you visible or
>invisible, which depends on what your privacy setting is set to.

Wow.. Talk about annoying.

Any workaround? Doesn't do it to any other service (well, Yahoo, AOL 
or MSN are the others I use).