Ah, right, I get it now (I thought you were proposing WoDC method as an alternative to digging the level). That's much easier than my way! I wonder how other Proton Men did it? I'd like to think I created my own, admittedly unnecessarily tedious, way of traversing D:49 as a Proton Man.
Yeah, me too. It was instant, as well - I didn't even resist a couple of attempts before succumbing. As soon as he saw me, pow! insta-confused. It lasted for quite a while after I killed him too. Maybe his confusion can't be 'naturally' resisted with Willpower alone or something like that.