my friend and I have been okay just by giving our servers...'memorable' names. Although, generally better cooperation with the steam client would be great.

should be noted there was no window behind me

Yep--sorry about the confusion. It's working now.
God, I feel stupid for posting something here that I thought was a glitch, but it was really just my own idiocy. Sorry again for wasting valuable dev time.

Additional information--repeated by dropping all items, then after pistol is drawn, look down and drop pistol from inventory--here's another photo with that one.