The sprint thing is simply because you limited the rate of packets and the new speed sync wasn't recieved for a while. I mean, everyone that plays official should even know the speed changes are server side, thats why when you lag with your ghost world crap you can fly around like a tit. Although, blizzard did basically do a complete rewrite on movement in 4.2, so that might not be the case anymore

Completely true, and blizzard do that for everything, except movement which would cause too much overhead trying to verify. They let warden crush anyone modifying things they trust the client with.