this is annoying when you don't want that (which is often) and just e.g. get the broker details wrong when starting up.
Fixed on trunk (r950480) and on release branch (http://mrg1.lab.bos.redhat.com/git/?p=qpid.git;a=commitdiff;h=e61456d966e7f4d35aaf9a0e04d2f4d5142c7ae3).