import settings dialog

A while ago, I was told that the Import Settings dialog is mostly gone, 
except for special cases.  Today I saw it in the following case and I'm 
wondering if that's desired behavior:

I have a .netbeans directory with settings from 3.5.

I run netbeans 3.6 with a clean userdir:
/bin/runide.sh -userdir <my new userdir>

I expect no dialogs since I specify a brand new userdir (and in fact, 
automated tests are failing for this reason), but instead I see the 
import settings dialog.  Is this expected/desired?

Thanks,
Rochelle