First, go back and read demerphq's post. Then realize that a user's settings cover a lot more then they might appear to; they cover a lot of miscelanious data that the server keeps about people -- including what their XP was the last time they saw the XP nodelet. Since, as I understand it, everybody's settings just got restored from backup, that number would obviously be a bit off. (I'm not sure why so far off -- I'll have to find out exactly what happened in more detail; at present all I know is what's in that post by demerphq.)
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