pickle.load() on an dictionary of dictionaries doesn't load full data structure on first call

[James Pearson]

I've been using irclib to write a simple irc bot, and I was running into
some difficulties with pickle.  Upon some experimentation with pdb, I found
that pickle.load() doesn't load *all* of the data the _first_ time it's
called.

For instance, I have this dictionary pickled:
{'xiong_chiamiov': {'name': 'James Pearson', 'distro': 'Arch'}}
The first time I pickle.load() it, I get this:
{'xiong_chiamiov': {'name': 'James Pearson'}}
The 2nd time, I get the full thing.

Is this a bug in pickle, something wrong with the way I'm approaching this,
or what?  Full code is available at: http://github.com/xiongchiamiov/mpu/

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