14.1 route-reflector & next-hop-self

When I initially configured R2 as route reflector & next-hop-self like how DSG 
describes, the next-hop-self part wasn't working.
router bgp 1
...
address-family ipv4
neighbor IBGP next-hop-self

When R5 received the reflected routes from R1, they all had R1's loopback as 
next hop instead of R2's.
I had to use a route-map to manually set the next hop as the "peer address" to 
make it work:
route-map NEXT-HOP permit 10
set ip next-hop peer-address

router bgp 1
...
address-family ipv4
  neighbor IBGP route-reflector-client
  neighbor IBGP route-map NEXT-HOP out

A cisco.com document says:
"Do not use the neighbor next-hop-self command to modify the next hop attribute 
for a route reflector when this feature is enabled for a route reflector 
client."

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2s/feature/guide/fs_bgpnh.html#wp1027202

Could someone please confirm if the solution to use next-hop-self on the 
route-reflector was an error on the DSG?

Thanks,
Kevin
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