Limiting number of links displayed and not paging

I do not have the "maximum number of links to display" set for any of my categories, but it looks like they are always being limited to 10 anyway. This is contrary to the text that accompanies that setting. I can see in the code where that setting is being read and it uses 10 when no value is given, for example lines 1085 and 1129 that read
$limitnum = variable_get("weblinks_maxdisp_".$tid, 10);.

There should be some provision for paging so that if there are more than $limitnum links in the category there will be the appropriate links at the bottom to jump to the next set.