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Woo hoo!  This appears to cure the oddball "leaks" for me
too, but no idea why.  Outstanding anyway ;-)

I fiddled the patch a bit to exercise both pickle and
cPickle,  and to use pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL instead of the
hardcoded 2.  Checked in as revision 46705 on the trunk. 
Thank you!