bug with static title - memory exhaustion

A link field with a static title seems to be buggy.
My field was titled "Tickets" and the link to the ticket sales point was:
"http://www.billettservice.no/html/connect.htmI?l=NO&EVNT=STC1409&STAGE=1&C="
I tried different urls and it breaks whatever the url is. Optional/Required title links with the same text is OK. As is a link field with "no title".

Saving the node with the link field filled in gives me a blank page. Viewing any page with teaser or full body listings of the node with the link results in a memory exhaustion error from PHP. Devel normally reports mem usage of around 25mb. The error says that link.module has tried to allocate only 4k, but somewhere in the process the memory is stacked all the way up to my limit of 128mb. Smacks of an infinite loop somewhere.

Can someone else be bothered to try out static link fields, and report whether they see the same? I can make do with a no-title-link, but this bug looks ugly.

thanks,
kevin