Labels: minfeaturesize causes labels not to display?

[Gregor Mosheh]

The documentation describes that "minfeaturesize auto" will cause a 
feature's label to be drawn only if it can fit within the polygon, and 
we have turned it on for this polygon layer. These screenshots show that 
the labelling behavior is now inconsistent.

In these, there is obviously plenty of room for labels, but it chooses 
not to label.
   http://maps.hostgis.com/gregor/ticket261a.jpg
   http://maps.hostgis.com/gregor/ticket261c.jpg
It shows up if we zoom in a bit:
    http://maps.hostgis.com/gregor/ticket261b.jpg

Using PHP/Mapscript, the label-related code is as follows:
$maplayer->set('labelitem',$labelitem);
$class->label->color->setRGB(0,0,0);
$class->label->outlinecolor->setRGB(200,200,200);
$class->label->set('position',MS_CC);
$class->label->set('angle',0);
$class->label->set('size',7);
$class->label->set('type',MS_TRUETYPE);
$class->label->set('font','Vera');
$class->label->set('mindistance',1);
$class->label->set('buffer',1);
$class->label->set('partials',MS_TRUE);
$class->label->set('minfeaturesize',MS_AUTO);
$class->label->set('autominfeaturesize',MS_TRUE);


Any thoughts? Basically, we want as many labels as possible without 
collisions, but with each label constrained to its polygon.

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Gregor Mosheh / Greg Allensworth
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