"It (batch progress bar) is sorta blingy"
Assumed clean URLS meant Pathauto
criticality:
Moderate
Drupal7:
Open
This happened to:
During install, the user saw that Clean URLS were enabled and in his mind, he thought that meant that the title would be a part of the URL (aka pathauto).
Solution:
Remove the option to install clean urls if the server is setup correctly.