I think you are confusing AP with OBE. An OBE is just an out-of-body-experience. Technically, any time that you dream that you don't have a body, or your original body, you are having an OBE. At least that is my personal interpretation. There is also a lot of scientific support, so I've read, for OBEs that often occur under moments of intense stress.

My advice to you? You should probably not be so quick to be disturbed by something like this as it can jeopardize your ability to be open minded. Read more, stay the hell away from Beyond Dreaming. I think most lucid dreamers permit the conversation of OBEs and AP, to a degree, because the majority of the population feels the same way about lucid dreaming that you do about OBEs. Plus, when you realize you can exist in a world completely created by your imagination and memory, you begin to realize that perception of a world completely created by your imagination and memory is not exactly impossible.

Eh, dunno. Just the way I feel about the matter. I'm with you on AP I assume- mainly because the simplest tasks that would support it don't seem possible for those who believe in it. OBEs on the other hand are another matter altogether. The only thing that annoys me is those people learning to WILD and then calling it an OBE just because they've managed to not have a dream body and who run around saying there's something mystical about it.