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Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Melanie Marken was headed to her hotel to rest up for a business meeting in Bloomington, Ind., last month when she made a discovery. She was in the wrong Bloomington. Marken's travel agent had mistakenly booked her on a flight to Bloomington, Ill. And she had to drive nearly five hours to make her meeting in the Indiana city with the same name. "Remember when you were a little kid and got lost at the mall?" she says. "That's what I felt like. … 'Now what do I do?' " Even the most veteran of business travelers can inadvertently end up on the wrong flight — and in the wrong city. It's embarrassing, and even worse, it can foul up business meetings and potentially cost a company money. Causes for a mix-up can range from the carelessness of a weary traveler to a travel agent's error in booking a ticket to the wrong city, Road Warriors and travel experts say. "The traveler can e-mail a request for tickets to Philadelphia, for...