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I'm not sure that it would be confusing, but I am sure that it would be ridiculed by users and reviewers, and rightly so.
Using a pointing device, there should be one obvious way of logging out, one obvious way of restarting, and one obvious way of shutting down. Now that we have the new status menu, it provides all three of those commands. Therefore, we should not have extra buttons for any of them, and we should no longer have Log Out in any dialogs *at all*.
The only reason we need a dialog is when someone presses the power button on their machine, because (until ExitStrategy is implemented) we need to ask whether they mean Suspend, Hibernate, Shut Down, or Restart. We can assume they don't mean Log Out, because, well, it's a power button.
People using the same home folder with an older version of Ubuntu, or a different distribution, can quit using the items in the System menu of the Menu Bar or Main Menu. But when anyone uses Ubuntu 8.10, whether a new installation or an upgrade, please, have the new status menu as the single access point for all the quit commands.