gnuclient *feature* -- crash when frames lose X connection

I stopped using gnuclient a while back because it would cause my XEmacs processes to die easily. I would start a process at work, then go home and connect with gnuclient over DSL. But if my line died, the process at work would die too! That meant that I couldn't just re-gnuclient the frame when my connection restabilized. This is bad for me. Just because an X client loses connection to a server on which it is hosting a frame/window, does that mean that the client has to totally pork?