Victor, I get around that problem by introducing the idea that these are "work sessions", i.e. part of development. Language can change the way we think. I posted something about this to scrumdevelopment recently, here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/27380

This was a great post Kane, an important on. I agree completely that the Story Time meeting should be considered part of "standard Scrum".

Tobias