Yes, just to echo your own words Nahilly.
Both looked to happen at the same time for me too.
Also, on another note.
I encountered an odd glitch last night, please speak up if anybody else experienced this.
Was in EU2(iirc) and once map change happened, it kept downloading the same map again and again.
161KBS was the size, it was a new map i'd never seen before.
I closed warband, restarted and tried again, yet it still kept downloading it.
So I left it for a few hours, once i came back it was ok, dont know if the server restarted or what.