Rev2.5 exe error with garbage

[FlexibleLearning at aol.com]

Has anyon else experienced .exe errors when using sockets in a password  
protected stack with Rev2.5 (engine 2.6.1) that do not happen with other engines  
or when the password of the stack is empty?
 
I wish I could supply a formula, but the error (or a system freeze) is  
temperamental and inconsistent but nevertheless guaranteed.
 
The situation is when receiving ascii socket data that is placed in a  
field... After a while, there is what looks like an encrypted text dump of the  
stack in the field instead of the text data, then "poof!" and we have  either an 
exe error or a system freeze. The 'text of fld tFld' does not match  the 
displayed garbage, so I am assuming this is the cause of the failure, but  the 
question is where is this garbage coming from and why?
 
Anyone had similar?
 
/H