My apologies for being vague, while I cannot seem to reproduce it on the command line, I will go ahead and write a different script with the same logic. In answer to your suggestions, the field that FreezeThaw freezes data to is set to MEDIUMTEXT which means that the theoretical limit is 16777215 characters which in testing I don't come close to. What I believe the problem to be (just venturing a guess) is that the version of Mozilla I'm testing this with may be broken since I cannot reproduce the error on the command line and it never errors with MSIE. Well thanks for the reply I just ended up throwing in a couple of filters to strip then add spaces. Seems to have cleared the problem up just fine. Man now if I could only write clearer posts eh? Grazias for the input.