Undesired Preferred Networks

According to a Cable Guy article from last November
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/com...uy/cg1102.mspx),
when you choose a wireless network from the list of available networks,
"when Wireless Auto Configuration successfully connects to the selected
network for the first time, it is automatically added to the top of the
list of preferred networks."

Is there any way to prevent this behavior, by gpedit or something else?

Here's the scenario:

1. Unknowledgeable User's WinXP box is configured to connect to
preferred wireless networks A & B.

2. U.U. is at some other location, out of range of A & B, and wants to
connect. On the "Choose a Wireless Network" dialog, U.U. sees an
available network that is either unsecured or for which U.U. has been
given the encryption key, and connects. The catch is that this network
uses a manufacturer's default SSID, e.g., "Linksys." Wireless Auto
Configuration places network "Linksys" at the top of the list of
"Preferred Networks."

3. U.U. returns to home or office, in range of A & B, but it turns out
that there is an unknown and unsecured network, also within range, that
uses the same default SSID (i.e., "Linksys"). U.U.'s WinXP box
automatically connects to the unknown network with the default SSID.

4. U.U. doesn't understand why the network status shows as connected,
with a good signal strength, but the expected network resources are no
where to be found. (Even if U.U. opens the wireless network Status
dialog and sees the name of the connected network, U.U. probably doesn't
know that it's not supposed to be called "Linksys"). U.U. calls
support.