Found out the other night after finally upgrading to 5.0b that the bug while changing a speed of a clip on either side of a dissolve via the ctrl+drag method would cause the transition to become "warped" is now fixed. You can now ctrl+drag clips that are part of transitions with other clips and not affect the shape or length of the transition!
I was the one that posted this finding and one of the Sony guys (SonyEMP?) said he'll take note. Apparently he/she did!
Thanks for listening....
THANK YOU SONY!