The next time I see players with colored names, I'll be sure to poke out their eyes.

Isn't the seeker hole problem just an issue of how JJ2 handles players who leave a server? So a client's position will be stored wherever the player left the server. But after a player joins the game, the server temporarily stores the client's postion at the top left while that player is connecting. Would it be possible to change it so that the server stores client positions at the top left whenever players leaves?