Okay, this is what I was looking for. It seems to me that, since I originally played the game when it was brand new, it may have had a few translation errors that confused me. In later versions, those may have been fixed. Or, alternately, they weren't fixed, but being more familiar with the game I was able to subconsciously figure out what they mean from the context. I'm not sure on that, but the point is that you all have told me that many people make that mistake.
That is likely the source of the rumor: vague pronoun refrence, or some other grammatical oversight. For some reason I just don't fall for it now.
It's still a coincidence that my brother and I would misinterpret the same translation error to mean the same this, but it's a plausible coincident.
I wasn't convinced I was right, or anything. I just couldn't come up with any other explanation that made sense to me. But this one does, so I can hopefully stop wondering about it.
So thanks for clearing this up. And to whichever mod I sorta flamed, sorry about the n00b-like posts earlier (I'm new here, but not to forums in general). Thank you for your patience and help.