billth87:
This is supposed to be a real Uno. I bought it at Radio Shack. The box says Arduino Uno. The board itself says Arduino Uno R3 and Made in Italy. The board has 2011-3-02 etched into it on the bottom under the dc connector. The CPU says 1205, so it must be a recent build.So only the bootloader controls the upload data rate?
That is very strange. Radio Shack does carry the 'real' Uno boards as a big deal was made when it was announced that RS would carry some of the Arduino line of products. So maybe you have a real 'collectors' item there, kind of like some of those mint coin errors that collectors love to find. 
EDIT: Any chance there was a manufacture error and a 8 mhz ceramic resonator was installed by accident rather then the designed 16 Mhz resonator? You could probably write a simple sketch using a delay function to see if the board is running at half the speed it should be running at?
Lefty