diff --git a/src/BufferView.C b/src/BufferView.C
index cc2afe0f32..2d1846ab94 100644
--- a/src/BufferView.C
+++ b/src/BufferView.C
@@ -1261,8 +1261,15 @@ ViewMetricsInfo const & BufferView::viewMetricsInfo()
 
 void BufferView::updateMetrics(bool singlepar)
 {
+	// FIXME (Abdel 19/10/2006):
+	// There's something fishy in tabular. The coord_cache_ is not
+	// correctly reconstructed when a character is trying to be inserted.
+	// Not clearing out the coord_cache_ fixes the crash but I don't know
+	// what side effect this could have on other insets.
+	//
 	// Remove old position cache
-	coord_cache_.clear();
+	// coord_cache_.clear();
+
 	LyXText & buftext = buffer_->text();
 	lyx::pit_type size = int(buftext.paragraphs().size());