ShapeBase object id numbers changing after animation

Really hard to explain here. I'll try by showing some sample code:

void ShapeBase::setTeam(U32 team)
{
  Con::printf("Setting object %u team to %u",getId(),team);
  mTeam = team;
}
U32 ShapeBase::getTeam()
{
  return mTeam;
}

// Hud to render team indicators
// render method

..... some code ......

GameConnection *conn = GameConnection::getServerConnection();

for(SimSetIterator itr(conn); *itr; ++itr)
{
  // Test whether or not to render the image
  if((*itr)->getType() & ShapeBaseObjectType)
  {
    ShapeBase *shape = static_cast<ShapeBase*>(*itr);
    // test if we should render the image (simplified)
    if(shape->getTeam()!=0)
    {
      Con::printf("Rendering Team indicator for shape: %u, team %u", shape->getId(),shape->getTeam());
    }
  }
}

Now, in my game scripts, I have (something like) this

function playerSpawned(%client)
{
  %player = new Player() {}; // blah blah blah
  %player.setTeam(%client.team);
}

function playerDied(%player)
{
  %player.setTeam(0); // 0 means don't render the image
}

Ok, got it? Didn't think so =)

Ok, so I start up the game, and I spawn.

Check the console, I have something like:

Setting object 1570 team to 1

Ok, so I hit ctrl+k to suicide, and check the console

Setting object 1570 team to 0

Ok, so I respawn, and walk up to my corpse, and check the console, expecting everything all fine and dandy ( meaning NO console spam, because I'm assuming that the team for my corpse object was properly set to 0 ) and I get something like this:

Rendering Team indicator for shape: 1572, team 1
Rendering Team indicator for shape: 1572, team 1
Rendering Team indicator for shape: 1572, team 1
Rendering Team indicator for shape: 1572, team 1
Rendering Team indicator for shape: 1572, team 1 Rendering Team indicator for shape: 1572, team 1
etc....

Is that supposed to happen? It seems like the ID for that object just jumped. I can't for the life of me figure out why, and it's screwing me up. Does it have something to do with the death animation?