Bradley is exactly right. I too, am amazed by the number of veteran officials I work with you mess up extremely simple and basic rules. While you can't expect everyone to be 100% correct every time, it is not reasonable to expect a long-time veteran to know at least the most common rules.
Of course a player does not lose his right to run the endline because there was a timeout. The same goes for after a delay warning for a boundary violation.
I would say that the number of officials who don't know this is roughly equal to the number of coaches who think a player can always run the endline on all throwins on the endline, including spot throwins.
I actually had one 10 year vet tell me last year that a team couldn't inbound into their backcourt from their endline! This same guy also thought the clock would start after a miss on the last free throw in a sequence when the ball hit the floor untouched and chopped it that way twice in the same game (I was watching - not reffing with him, but I asked him about it after the game).
Oy.
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