Player hate lists don't seem to have anything to do with this problem but I'm not against them coming back so long as we cover the bases where they should be wiped. Before they never were wiped ever and it kinda caused issues.
I haven't gotten a chance to review the code that causes this but I bet the person who implemented it didn't follow
http://eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=26629. >=(