Record Activity for Contacts - pulldown only shows custom Activity Types

When trying to batch update "Record Activity for Contacts" from Find Contact search list), the "Record an Activity" screen only allows custom Activity types, the standard "Phone, Email, Meeting" selections do not show - makes it hard to schedule/record a group of standard meetings/phone calls/bulk emails. Was able to reproduce on 1.6 demo site.

Looks like the "Record Activity" reflects the "Other Activity" choice screen on the individual contacts, but since the batch updates do not have "Log a Phone Call" etc. option, it should have all the possible types of Activities. This did work in previous versions, BTW, the pulldown did not filter the standard Activity types.