PHP 5.3 and MySQLi Prepared Statements

There seems to be an issue with PHP 5.3 and MySQLi Prepared Statements. The procedural code I wrote works fine in 5.2.x, but once I upgraded to 5.3, the results were bizzare. It would pull about 20-50 characters from the field, duplicate the last several characters over and over again (in and around the div container I had set for it), and even change some of the HTML code that was supposed to be outputted onto the page.

So if you are using prepared statements, I recommend staying away from 5.3 until they get everything ironed out.