Some xml information being lost by parser

There seems to be some error that caused drush to fail for me starting yesterday.

I tracked it down to the update_status_xml_parser class.
Basically anything after the "terms" section of the xml and before the "releases" section is deleted,
including recommended_major, supported_majors, and default_major (which drush uses).

The xml looks like this for example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<project xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<title>Lightbox2</title>
<short_name>lightbox2</short_name>
<dc:creator>bugz_nz</dc:creator>
  <terms>
   <term><name>Projects</name><value>Modules</value></term>
   <term><name>Projects</name><value>Content display</value></term>
   <term><name>Projects</name><value>Media</value></term>
   <term><name>Projects</name><value>Javascript Utilities</value></term>
  </terms>
<api_version>5.x</api_version>
<recommended_major>2</recommended_major>
<supported_majors>2</supported_majors>
<default_major>2</default_major>
<project_status>published</project_status>
<link>http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2</link>


<releases>
......snipped

My temporary work around is to add a break to the beginning of case 'TERM' and 'TERMS' in the parser start and end tag handlers, to essentially ignore the TERMS section of the xml.