Synopsis: satisfy tag in .htaccess allows access from all State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed State-Changed-By: brian State-Changed-When: Sun Jul 20 21:02:49 PDT 1997 State-Changed-Why: I've had trouble reproducing this - I tried a config just as you suggested, and "satisfy any" worked completely as expected.
If you're still seeing the problem, could you send me, via private email, your access.conf, and all .htaccess files in the directories above the current directory? It's possible the "satisfy any" is acting upon access control rules in higher directories.
