htmlarea / comments focus issue (goes to bottom of page)

If
0)use IE (this behaviour doesn't manifest on netscape)
1)you enable the html area module, and
2)you enable the "new comment form" checkbox on the comment module (so that an input field for putting in a new comment will appear at the bottom of your comment pages).
3)You have a story with enough comments to use more than one page
4)(don't know if it matters, but I view comments "Flat List-expanded" mode).

The following happens:
when you go from the first page of comments to the second (by clicking "next" or "2") you will go to the second page, but you will also be scrolled down to the bottom of the page. The cursor will be in the text area.

This is not the intended behaviour: the user clearly wants to read the comments on the second page, otherwise they wouldn't have clicked next.

This doesn't happen if you disable htmlarea (or use netscape).

Commenting out the following lines in htmlarea.js fixed the problem.

451 //editor.focusEditor();
459 //editor.focusEditor();
486 //this.focusEditor();

Regards,
-jimbo