Is it possible to poll the API for a user's suspended status?

I am pulling up the show.xml for a suspended user, and nothing on that
page leads me to believe that the account has been suspended. The xml
document would have you believe that nothing is wrong with the
account, that everything is live. However, trying to access their page
directly results in the Suspension message.

This is a difficult issue because my hourly API calls are being used
up by polling users that are no longer valid, and nothing in their
response leads me to believe this. I could totally bypass the API and
screen scrape the data, but I'm sure that's not looked very highly on,
and it would defeat the purpose of having the API.

So am I missing something, or is this feature not out there?

Example:
user: bellyloss
http://twitter.com/users/show/bellyloss.xml returns user data
http://twitter.com/bellyloss returns the /suspended page

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