Problem with frontpage blog truncation

I've set my blog to truncate on the front page using the "By break tags" option (By "character" or "word" truncation isn't an option as they look terrible in my case, and "By paragraph" isn't an option either for other reasons).

But there seems to be a problem: I've set it to truncate after 5 break tags, and it does truncate, BUT it also seems to add the next two characters that come after the end of the last br tag. So if I had a sixth BR tag coming after the fifth, EasyBlog would add in the first two characters of the next tag, in this case <b. It then is "smart" enough to complete the tag. And it does it like this:

<b <!--="" @trigger:="" onafterdisplaycontent="" --=""> The entire next post on my front page is within this bold tag, thus the whole next post is bold when shown on the front page. </b>

This is a big problem. It sometimes happens when the tag after the fifth br is a span tag, which then makes the next post below it on the front page a strikethrough (because it turns it into the <s> tag). Or if it's just text after the fifth BR tag, then the first two characters of the next "paragraph" show up, which of course looks weird.

Any ideas why it's adding in the two characters after the fifth/final BR tag? I have my BR tags formatted like this: <br />