Incorrect form values selected for operations

NOTE: This starts out sounding like a views issue, but it is VBO issue.

This issue occurs when sorting a views table by a column in which multiple rows may share one or more identical field values. In this instance, each page load of the view results in a random sort order for said values. For example the following data may appear as such when sorted by the first column:

A | 1
B | 2
B | 3
C | 4

But if you reload the page, you may see this order, still sorted by the first column.

A | 1
B | 3
B | 2
C | 4

Since we are using the views table sort and not the field sort, this means that the there is no secondary sort, nor would that makes sense since we can arbitrarily sort by any column anyway.

The problem here is that VBO does not seem to truly remember which values were selected upon performing an operation. It remembers the POSITION, but since VBO seems to be actually reloading the entire view when performing this operation, the order of the rows gets changed between viewing the view and performing the operation.

The end result is that operations may be performed on the wrong rows.

This can be reproduced by creating a views table similar to the one above, where multiple rows match on once column but not another. IMPORTANT: You must be able to reproduce the view sorting randomness in order to see this happen. If your view is not randomly ordering the rows with matching values when sorting by that column, this behavior will not occur. I've been told that this is standard views behavior but I cannot always reproduce it.

The implications of this are serious because when it can result in operations being performed on the wrong data.