I did a search before posting and didn’t find anything.
Anything I can do to be useful?
There should be a big commit on menus later today (Apr 22, 2010) so if the problem is still there after that, you might consider reporting it to trac. See Reporting Bugs. Your forum login will login you into trac.
Is there any update on this? I see the problem is still there in Release Candidate 1.
My draft pages are also still showing.
Confirmed. This is still a bug in WordPress 3.0.4
You have to manually remove the items from the menu. If someone has the link, though, it should be possible to access those unpublished (draft) pages anyway.
My solution was to change the post_type in the DB to something like “unpublished-page”.
So they won’t show up anywhere in the website.