Weird text compression problem

[jda]

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>>  Yes. He has > 1800 records, and this field displays as garbage for
>>  each (all other fields, uncompressed, are OK).
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>No idea, John.
>
>Try reproduce this.
>Or that guy let try to reproduce.

OK. I told him to rebuild a *good* database (rebuild meaning export 
all data and import it again to a fresh database) and see if he can 
corrupt it again. If it happens, I'll get back to you.

Jon