After reading the above comments about utf-8 characters, I looked at the groups I had while shoeing all offline buddies and found a couple groups that had special or weird characters in them. I moved all my buddies out of them and then deleted the groups. The problem appears to have gone away.
I found a workaround for this bug.
After reading the above comments about utf-8 characters, I looked at the groups I had while shoeing all offline buddies and found a couple groups that had special or weird characters in them. I moved all my buddies out of them and then deleted the groups. The problem appears to have gone away.