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Sounds like you've already got a plan, but as someone who is just now getting through with Grad. School, I strongly encourage you not to work with the professor that misled you. In the end, character issues are easily as important as anything else.
I think that if you can get your Masters under another prof, then that is the best solution. It sounds like you may have problems transferring programs completely, and since you're in where you are, take advantage of it. You may find that you don't really care for graduate school after all and decide to leave with the Masters. If you do enjoy it and do well, you may very well be able to roll over into continuation to a Ph.D., depending on your grades and research at the Master's level.
If you have to stay with the original prof, make the best of it and then re-evaluate after your Masters. I agree that the email notification is inappropriate in this case, but many professors end up being professors partly because they're not so good in social situations. Did she say anything acknowledging the circumstances or apologizing? If she didn't, then I'd watch out. Is she tenured yet, or on tenure track? Profs in search of tenure can be cold-hearted about these issues, if they perceive them to affect their standing in the department / probablility of obtaining tenure.
good luck.
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