EQ7.1 Template Contractors Initials for O&M Manual

We just ran into this same issue! In the comments on this site for LEED NC 2009 - EQc7.1 there is some discussion about this, and one comments imlplies that the O&M manual signatory was removed, but that does not appear to be the case for your project or ours. We are sending a feedback inquiry through LEED online to try to find out what to do. Not only is it inappropriate to assign the contractor to inital a design phase credit, but nowhere in the reference guide that I can find does it say that this credit will require documenting a systems/O&M manual. I hate being blindsided by something on the template that is not mentioned in the credit requirements!

Have you guys checked that your LEED Online forms are as up to date as possible? No BETA marking on the bottom? They don't get updated automatically....