I've read conflicting reports on a couple of boards about this. Currently I have my default location set to home, and general preferences set for work which differ in areas like:
do not run when the machine is busy
do not leave projects in memory

However the work machine's BOINC is running with the default preferences. I went so far as to update the prefences on both projects I run (CPDN and SETI) and update both of them, restart BOINC, etc. and the work preferences are being ignored.

Is ignoring location-specific preferences still a known bug, to be fixed some day, or has it theoretically been fixed? Thanks for any info.

I has theoretically been fixed in the 4.5x client. There are still other bugs with it though so I do not recomend using it until it is released.

[edit] There have been reports that manually setting the venue in client_state.xml will work.

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> I has theoretically been fixed in the 4.5x client. There are still other bugs
> with it though so I do not recomend using it until it is released.
>
> [edit] There have been reports that manually setting the venue in
> client_state.xml will work.

Thanks for both the answer and the workaround! With a bit of persistence to avoid overwrites by either of the two projects I'm running, I was able to set the venue manually and that worked.