You both remind me of the
blind men and an elephant parable...not realizing you both are describing
different aspects of the total testing/binning/packaging life-cycle of an IC regardless the IDM involved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
Dug is right, and you are too, the key here is to realize that neither of you are speaking to the process in its entirety and that neither of you are discussing aspects that are actually inviolate and mutually exclusive of the other.
For beginners I would not be surprised if the two of you are using the term binning differently, no two IDM's use it to mean the same explicit steps in their cycle...the same goes for terms like test and validation...they kinda mean the same thing but when you get into the nitty-gritty minutia of the process flow you find out that one man's "test phase" is another man's "pre-bin validate phase", etc.
Unless you've managed a project that involved you becoming intimately knowledgeable of the test/bin/package loop, versus say being exposed to it simply thru workshops and second-hand accounts, you are asking a lot of yourself to know exactly what that elephant looks like and you are assuming a lot when you conclude that others who describe the process slightly differently than how you perceive it to exist are the ones who are in error.