Hello Frank,
Can you show us a scenario where this breaks? Assuming the Text property of the tooltip is set and it is not an empty string, you should not get the title attribute of the target: http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/tooltip-content.html.
Here is the code I tried with the Q3 2014 SP1 version and it seemed to work fine for me:
I am also attaching a short video that demonstrates the expected behaviour.
Regards,
Marin Bratanov
Telerik
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