Wow, that should have been a rant... but I wanted to cut down on folks pointing me there if at all possible

I have noticed that though the automapper works in Avlis that after a certain period of time, or a server restart, or something, any data that the automapper had for my particular character is lost. Now, I'm guessing this means automapper data is stored on the server, and is non-persistent. This makes sense to me because if I went and took my level 20 character and ran him all over the place I could then find a way to extract those maps from the character file or wherever they get stuck and pass them out to other people. This is not happy.
What bothers me though is the lack of ability to use a pretty well designed system in the game. The ability to add information to and otherwise customize user-placeable pins is a great thing, yet we can't make use of it... Is there a solution to this that avoids pen and paper, or is it just the way it is?
My next question is only somewhat related. Given that there are various room sizes and that exits to a room can appear at any given point, even in the center of it in terms of city scapes and the like, how exactly are you all doing your mapping on paper? Graphing them properly without something to scale by is simply beyond my artistic ability, i think. Is that the only way or has someone come up with a genious solution? Is there a way other than screenshots, to transpose information from the automapper window to a printable source or something?