I learned something I didn't know about Django:

Apparently, if you retrieve the same model instance with two different references,
they don't equate with is or ==, you need to compare the id's.  I could be misreading the
symptoms, but this is what I had to do to get it to recognize that the home of the object in
question was its current (going away) location, and act appropriately.

apps/objects/models.py

@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ class Object(models.Model):
             text = "player"
 
          # Obviously, we can't send it back to here.
-         if home is self:
+         if home.id == self.id:
             obj.home = default_home
             obj.save()
             home = default_home