SPI Setup Anomaly

Firmware
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Don’t know if this has been reported but last night I was running some code that begins by initializing the SPI interface:

SPI.begin();                            
SPI.setClockDivider(SPI_CLOCK_DIV64); 
SPI.setDataMode(SPI_MODE0);

However, the SPI wasn’t working and I noticed that the SPI clock signal was the wrong polarity and waaaaay faster than what my HW could handle. To solve the problem, I added a brief delay between the above statements:

SPI.begin();    
delay(1);                   
SPI.setClockDivider(SPI_CLOCK_DIV64); 
delay(1);
SPI.setDataMode(SPI_MODE0);

And voila, the problem went away. Anybody else experience this problem?