Thanks, but this in the Gnutella searches, not the search results. When youre an ultrapeer you can go to Monitor Tab and then click "Show incoming searches" and see what other ppl are searching for. People are searching for things and these characters are being appended to the end. It's really not random characters, its usually one of these 3 character sets thats on the end of what their searching for:

ã‚so@
ã‚so@
ã‚np@

I am doing a project for college thats due at the end of the semester and this is going to mess it all up if I cant explain what this means to my professor. Ive been watching searches for over a year now, and have never seen this. Now Im seeing it in at least 10% of gnutella searches. Help!!