It is always difficult to make judgements about "invisible code". I agree with Mike that what you describe doesn't make sense, but I have to wonder if what you describe is entirely what is happening.
Can you post the "code using VI Server" and let us "see for ourselves"? I can think of some circumstances where one might want to have such a check (for example, if you set a value and it comes back as "the same as before", maybe the code that you think is running on the other machine has crashed ...). Once we see what you're looking at, we can make fewer guesses.
Bob Schor