I am guessing the difference in our experiences may be caused one of two things:

1. My data was not cleared because I was using it on Thursday.

2. My data was not cleared because I had previously deleted the character on Undine, and then recopied it a few days ago before this update occurred. It didn't have the problem any more with the SoA stuff on the test server.

Both of those are just guesses. It could be either one, or it could be something else completely different. Either way, it's probably gonna stay like this until they do another clear operation like this later on. It could be a while.