Is llStopAnimation broken or am I doing this wrong?

Here we have a VERY basic poseball. It plays a looping animation. Works great. But I want to be able to STOP the animation ten seconds later. And it's not in fact stopping.

This is all working my way up to a syncing poseball system, and I found for some reason, I can't stop and restart an animation. I can't even just STOP it. When I try, it keeps merrily playing... until I try to type, then it does "hands typing" animation, then gets stuck in a "hands hovering" static pose.

What am I doing wrong? This seems so straightforward...

Swap in the animation name for any animation of your choice, I've tried it with bunches...

default 
{
    state_entry() { llSitTarget(<0.0, 0.0, 0.20>, ZERO_ROTATION); }
    
    changed(integer change) 
    { 
        if (change & CHANGED_LINK) 
        {
            
            if (llAvatarOnSitTarget() != NULL_KEY) 
            { 
                llRequestPermissions(llAvatarOnSitTarget(), PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION);
            }
            else
            {
                integer perm=llGetPermissions();
                if (perm & PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION)       
                llStopAnimation("Haruhi Dance");
            }
        }
    }
    run_time_permissions(integer perm)
    {
        if (perm & PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION)
        {
                llStopAnimation("sit");
                llStartAnimation("Haruhi Dance");
                llSetTimerEvent(10.0);
        }
    }
    
    timer()
    { llWhisper(0,"Stopping animation.");
      llStopAnimation("Haruhi Dance");
      llSetTimerEvent(0.0); }
}

Blargh, this is the upteenth time I figured it out a few minutes after posting...

If you don't start a new animation after stopping the old one, even if it's just "stand" or "sit" then it glitches out. By doing:

stop haruhi
start stand
(wait a split second)
stop stand
start haruhi

It nicely restarts the animation. Bleh. This kinda thing needs to be in the wiki!

so you added it yes? =)