No further feedback? No matter... I'm guessing that you must be using the older version (0.01-0.02) because that's the only thing that makes sense after reviewing each release and checking out the line.

First of all, yes, this is a bug, and should be corrected. There are at least two ways in which it might be done, but first you should consider upgrading to 1.02 -- that is the newest version and the problem has been corrected (much of that section has been completely rewritten). Even should the following fixes work, I'm sure there are still one or two other bugs lurking in the older code.

Ensure that you always set the -validate option. Set it to "none" during creation if you don't wish to use validation.

The problem has to do with the -validate option not being initialized. The method in question can be fixed with the following:

This will assume that "none" is a default value if nothing else is set. Possibly a BETTER fix would be to modify the code on line 207 instead to:

This will ensure that -validate uses "none" as a default value if no other is set.

My advice: Upgrade to 1.02 if possible.