Sure, there's no hardware damage, but you wind up with the whole FM radio scenario, wherein: Things don't work, and you don't know why. Turns out it's because some piece of software you're not using decided to make some changes to hardware configuration and not put it back. As simple as disabling that software? No, of course not! You need to go uninstall it. ******.
Right now, there's a community solution, and it works. (Like the 770 BT statusbar applet, but that was before my time.) Nokia takes it, scrambles it, and hands us back a half-way functional, integrated to make it difficult to disable and replace, and we are better off how? Builds character, I guess.
If I were to add something, it'd be an adapter (either a cable, or short adapter) in the box. Then things just work, which is good. Crude workarounds for suboptimal hardware are OK at best, and likely bad in Nokia's hands.
As for that bug, it's interesting. That should not be happening, and fixing it in new devices should be a pretty high priority.