ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 returns Area-specific controller when no area specified

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I have a basic MVC 2 (RC2) site with one base-level controller ("Home"), and one area ("Admin") with one controller ("Abstract"). When i call http://website/Abstract - the Abstract controller in the Admin area gets called even though i haven't specified the Area in the URL. To make matters worse - it doesn't seem to know it's under Admin because it can't find the associated view and just returns:

The view 'Index' or its master was not found. The following locations were searched:
~/Views/Abstract/Index.aspx
~/Views/Abstract/Index.ascx
~/Views/Shared/Index.aspx
~/Views/Shared/Index.ascx

Am i doing something wrong? Is this a bug? A feature?

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