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They changed it long before you and I got here, David.
There's a funny bit in a British movie from the mid-60s in which Freddie and the Dreamers play the chefs at a seaside resort. Throughout one musical number, someone keeps opening an oven door to find Freddie inside complaining "I'm not done yet!" At the end of the song, they all suddenly realize they haven't checked on him in a while, and when they rush to open the oven door there's a charred smoking roast saying (in Freddy's voice) "I'm do-o-one!"
I agree with Ron that "done" has long been accepted in the usage about which you complain. But I continue to use it in only your "old-fashioned" way as well, so keep it up. On a note that both posters have touched on, I heard long ago -- I forget from whom, and I might be getting the exact quote wrong -- that "cakes are *done*; people are *finished*."
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