I very much like the rationale you've put behind that Paulbot, it's highly sensical and could be very likely IMO.
Like Budiansky was up really bloody late that night working on the 3 and made slight hiccups, or Hasbro lost the paper-clips binding the various facets together and completely confused the lot of paperwork.
Imagine if that was the case and Hasbro came out and said it...... chaos!