Thanks for that bit of info, wooz!
Addressed how?
From what I can tell, it was/is working as designed. (May not be how you or I would've done it, but someone thought it was the 'right' thing to do.)
OK, gotcha. I'm still just waking up and had to go do some testing to jog my memory as to what the issue is. 2013 behaves the same as previous versions...opening a drawing whose shortcut folder has been saved with the dwg, while the working folder is set to another folder, results in the project not being found.