diff --git a/ext/fts3/fts3.c b/ext/fts3/fts3.c
index 289adeb4df..e82d1f5e89 100644
--- a/ext/fts3/fts3.c
+++ b/ext/fts3/fts3.c
@@ -2391,6 +2391,7 @@ static void fts3DoclistFirstFilter(
           fts3PutDeltaVarint3(&pOut, bDescDoclist, &iPrev, &bFirstOut, iDoc); 
           bWritten = 1;
         }
+        *pOut++ = 0x01;
         pOut += sqlite3Fts3PutVarint(pOut, iCol);
         *pOut++ = 0x02;
       }
diff --git a/ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c b/ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c
index 13d0ca3551..6a3d1ec893 100644
--- a/ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c
+++ b/ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c
@@ -368,6 +368,7 @@ static int fts3SnippetFindPositions(Fts3Expr *pExpr, int iPhrase, void *ctx){
     int iFirst = 0;
     pPhrase->pList = pCsr;
     fts3GetDeltaPosition(&pCsr, &iFirst);
+    assert( iFirst>=0 );
     pPhrase->pHead = pCsr;
     pPhrase->pTail = pCsr;
     pPhrase->iHead = iFirst;
diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index 4ab3fba4d2..f9ee83d4ef 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C If\sa\stoken\swithin\san\sFTS\squery\sis\sprefixed\swith\sa\s'^'\scharacter,\sit\smust\sbe\sthe\sfirst\stoken\sin\sa\scolumn\sof\sdata\sto\smatch.
-D 2011-10-18T19:39:41.203
+C Fix\sa\sproblem\sin\sFTS\sto\sdo\swith\s^\stokens\sand\sthe\ssnippet()\sfunction.
+D 2011-10-19T09:40:49.185
 F Makefile.arm-wince-mingw32ce-gcc d6df77f1f48d690bd73162294bbba7f59507c72f
 F Makefile.in a162fe39e249b8ed4a65ee947c30152786cfe897
 F Makefile.linux-gcc 91d710bdc4998cb015f39edf3cb314ec4f4d7e23
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ F ext/fts2/mkfts2amal.tcl 974d5d438cb3f7c4a652639262f82418c1e4cff0
 F ext/fts3/README.syntax a19711dc5458c20734b8e485e75fb1981ec2427a
 F ext/fts3/README.tokenizers 998756696647400de63d5ba60e9655036cb966e9
 F ext/fts3/README.txt 8c18f41574404623b76917b9da66fcb0ab38328d
-F ext/fts3/fts3.c e12a151b5f0f8d444744554f91dbb89dbf0654df
+F ext/fts3/fts3.c 708122f0ed7b7b0aa9813fe302eb40a238956276
 F ext/fts3/fts3.h 3a10a0af180d502cecc50df77b1b22df142817fe
 F ext/fts3/fts3Int.h bc27eebe2c5919115aa1858fdd308a230af6a359
 F ext/fts3/fts3_aux.c 0ebfa7b86cf8ff6a0861605fcc63b83ec1b70691
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ F ext/fts3/fts3_hash.c 8dd2d06b66c72c628c2732555a32bc0943114914
 F ext/fts3/fts3_hash.h 8331fb2206c609f9fc4c4735b9ab5ad6137c88ec
 F ext/fts3/fts3_icu.c 6c8f395cdf9e1e3afa7fadb7e523dbbf381c6dfa
 F ext/fts3/fts3_porter.c 8d946908f4812c005d3d33fcbe78418b1f4eb70c
-F ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c 8838a1de5f7df3a559596870caaa4a9895248998
+F ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c e1f3ed049efa35337d393a0ae971b32c28f4c88d
 F ext/fts3/fts3_term.c a5457992723455a58804cb75c8cbd8978db5c2ef
 F ext/fts3/fts3_test.c 24fa13f330db011500acb95590da9eee24951894
 F ext/fts3/fts3_tokenizer.c 9ff7ec66ae3c5c0340fa081958e64f395c71a106
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ F test/fts3expr.test 5e745b2b6348499d9ef8d59015de3182072c564c
 F test/fts3expr2.test 18da930352e5693eaa163a3eacf96233b7290d1a
 F test/fts3fault.test f83e556465bb69dc8bc676339eca408dce4ca246
 F test/fts3fault2.test b62a2bc843c20414405f80e5eeb78e39bc68fe53
-F test/fts3first.test 10f42914701d559c9fabfd7725b56c9f1b542fe8
+F test/fts3first.test 8402101caa140802fdea7322652b22caa7662010
 F test/fts3malloc.test b86ea33db9e8c58c0c2f8027a9fcadaf6a1568be
 F test/fts3matchinfo.test 6507fe1c342e542300d65ea637d4110eccf894e6
 F test/fts3near.test 2e318ee434d32babd27c167142e2b94ddbab4844
@@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ F tool/symbols.sh caaf6ccc7300fd43353318b44524853e222557d5
 F tool/tostr.awk e75472c2f98dd76e06b8c9c1367f4ab07e122d06
 F tool/vdbe-compress.tcl d70ea6d8a19e3571d7ab8c9b75cba86d1173ff0f
 F tool/warnings.sh b7fdb2cc525f5ef4fa43c80e771636dd3690f9d2
-P f9b5b217088a6aeb25eba184ab92d1a842a680a6
-R 4545768a323f698040377ce29e450e89
+P 63ac33c860eb32ce96699f06bf83121cec2ffaca
+R 3121ed7658c54e3e7fae4ae1475b5670
 U dan
-Z a7972271e048cbba7c3ba6dcd813d2e6
+Z 5ad246c0f30695f9ad4b0b18222b341a
diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index 1ccbaef9b8..4a839fd314 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-63ac33c860eb32ce96699f06bf83121cec2ffaca
\ No newline at end of file
+2c03b24f4cc6f2c28c9d5b9984320d41b8486c32
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/fts3first.test b/test/fts3first.test
index 6e309d0d9d..0c6de520fd 100644
--- a/test/fts3first.test
+++ b/test/fts3first.test
@@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ ifcapable !fts3 {
   return
 }
 
+proc lreverse {L} {
+  set res [list]
+  for {set ii [expr [llength $L]-1]} {$ii>=0} {incr ii -1} {
+    lappend res [lindex $L $ii]
+  }
+  set res
+}
+
 do_execsql_test 1.0 {
   CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE x1 USING FTS4(a, b, c);
   INSERT INTO x1(docid,a,b,c) VALUES(0, 'K H D S T', 'V M N Y K', 'S Z N Q S');
@@ -33,7 +41,7 @@ do_execsql_test 1.0 {
   INSERT INTO x1(docid,a,b,c) VALUES(10, 'Q I A Q M', 'N D K H C', 'A H T Q Z');
   INSERT INTO x1(docid,a,b,c) VALUES(11, 'T E R Q B', 'C I B C B', 'F Z U W R');
   INSERT INTO x1(docid,a,b,c) VALUES(12, 'E S V U W', 'T P F W H', 'A M D J Q');
-  INSERT INTO x1(docid,a,b,c) VALUES(13, 'X S B T Y', 'U D N D P', 'X Z Y G F');
+  INSERT INTO x1(docid,a,b,c) VALUES(13, 'X S B X Y', 'U D N D P', 'X Z Y G F');
   INSERT INTO x1(docid,a,b,c) VALUES(14, 'K H A B L', 'S R C C Z', 'D W E H J');
   INSERT INTO x1(docid,a,b,c) VALUES(15, 'C E U C C', 'W F M N M', 'T Z U X T');
   INSERT INTO x1(docid,a,b,c) VALUES(16, 'Q G C G H', 'H N N B H', 'B Q I H Y');
@@ -45,6 +53,7 @@ do_execsql_test 1.0 {
   INSERT INTO x2(docid, a, b, c) SELECT docid, a, b, c FROM x1;
 }
 
+
 foreach x {1 2} {
   foreach {tn match res} {
     1  "^K"              {0 1 14}
@@ -62,10 +71,7 @@ foreach x {1 2} {
     12 {"K H"}           {0 10 14}
     13 {"K ^H"}          {}
   } {
-    set rev [list]
-    for {set ii [expr [llength $res]-1]} {$ii>=0} {incr ii -1} {
-      lappend rev [lindex $res $ii]
-    }
+    set rev [lreverse $res]
     do_execsql_test 1.$x.$tn.1 {SELECT docid FROM x1 WHERE x1 MATCH $match} $res
     do_execsql_test 1.$x.$tn.2 {SELECT docid FROM x2 WHERE x2 MATCH $match} $rev
   }
@@ -76,4 +82,19 @@ foreach x {1 2} {
   } {}
 }
 
+foreach {tn match res} {
+  1  {^K}    {{[K] H D S T} {[K] N J L W} {[K] H A B L}}
+  2  {^X}    {{[X] Y D L S} {[X] J P K R} {[X] S B X Y}}
+  3  {^X Y}  {{[X] [Y] D L S} {D [Y] P O I...[X] J P K R} {[X] S B X [Y]}}
+} {
+  set rev [lreverse $res]
+
+  do_execsql_test 1.3.$tn.1 {
+    SELECT snippet(x1, '[', ']', '...') FROM x1 WHERE x1 MATCH $match
+  } $res
+  do_execsql_test 1.3.$tn.2 {
+    SELECT snippet(x2, '[', ']', '...') FROM x2 WHERE x2 MATCH $match
+  } $rev
+}
+
 finish_test