WP3's Appearance/Nav Menu search function broken

In the Appearance/Nav Menu feature introduced in WP 3, there are modules (Posts, Pages, Categories, Custom Links). Some of them have a Search function, where typing in a word or phrase results in a list of items that match the word or phrase.

On my installation, it appears that any post with more than one line of content in it is not handled correctly by the Posts or Pages modules’ search function. I can see the search results coming back from admin-ajax.php with a correct looking response (a bunch of <li> elements, one for each post, with <input>s for each piece of data about the post), but it includes each post’s full content (in the input.menu-item-description elements) — and those with multpile lines of content appear to break whatever handles the post
<li> elements.