DataObjects - staticGet not working as expected

Hi, staticGet is not working the way I expect it to. In have a class "Contacts" generated by DataObjects. I have added a propery called x. Consider the following code: $contact_id = 73; $contact =& PA_Contacts::staticGet($contact_id); $contact->x = 'test'; echo "<p>this is property x of the contact: $contact->x</p>"; $contact =& PA_Contacts::staticGet($contact_id); echo "<p>this is property x of the contact: $contact->x</p>"; This prints: == start of output == STATIC GET - TRY CACHE PA_Contacts 73 STATIC GET - NOT IN CACHE PA_Contacts 73 GET contact_id 73 a:1:{i:0;s:10:"contact_id";} __find 1

sql QUERYSELECT * FROM contacts  WHERE  contacts.contact_id = 73    

query DONE QUERY __find CHECK autofetchd 1 __find ABOUT TO AUTOFETCH fetchrow contacts DONE __find DONE this is property x of the contact: test STATIC GET - TRY CACHE PA_Contacts 73 this is property x of the contact: == end of output == How can that be? The 2nd time around it fetches the object from cache, but the property x is set to null, which makes me believe it's not the same object. I had a quick look at the sourcecode and on line 279 I came across this: $_DB_DATAOBJECT['CACHE'][$lclass][$key] = $obj; return $_DB_DATAOBJECT['CACHE'][$lclass][$key]; I thought this should be: $_DB_DATAOBJECT['CACHE'][$lclass][$key] =& $obj; return $_DB_DATAOBJECT['CACHE'][$lclass][$key]; But it doesn't work either... Any ideas? jeroen