A book with the "unpublished" date of 8888-00-00 should appear in a Publication Series display as "Unpublished", and not with the "8888-00-00" publication date. An example is the <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?137">Bibliographies of Modern Authors</a> series. This is particularly difficult to see when a series like that is listed in "Sort by series number" order.
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Implemented/fixed in edit/pubseries.py 1.7. Installed in r2012-36.