=== modified file 'includes/common.inc'
--- includes/common.inc	2009-11-08 12:43:40 +0000
+++ includes/common.inc	2009-11-09 20:07:20 +0000
@@ -3467,7 +3467,7 @@ function drupal_load_stylesheet_content(
     // Perform some safe CSS optimizations.
     $contents = preg_replace('<
       \s*([@{}:;,]|\)\s|\s\()\s* |  # Remove whitespace around separators, but keep space around parentheses.
-      /\*([^*\\\\]|\*(?!/))+\*/     # Remove comments that are not CSS hacks.
+      /\*[^*]*\*+([^/][^*]*\*+)*/   # Remove comments.
       >x', '\1', $contents);
   }