diff -up libglade-2.6.2/glade/glade-xml.c.unref libglade-2.6.2/glade/glade-xml.c
--- libglade-2.6.2/glade/glade-xml.c.unref	2008-02-19 21:59:52.000000000 -0500
+++ libglade-2.6.2/glade/glade-xml.c	2008-02-19 22:00:10.000000000 -0500
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ glade_xml_new_from_buffer(const char *bu
     if( !glade_xml_construct_from_buffer(self, buffer, size, root, domain) )
     {
        /* Clean up, the parser was unable to load the object */
-       g_free(self);
+       g_object_unref(self);
        return NULL;
     }