BUG: menu_title not displayed in certain instances All in One SEO Pack Troubleshooting Forum

I believe I've found a bug. The problem is related to displaying the "menu title" when "link_before" and "link after" values are specified as parameters of the "wp_list_pages" function.

In most instances the "link_before" and "link_after" values are ignored and the value given for the "menu_title" is displayed. That sounds less like a bug and more like a design choice. However, when the "link_before" and "link_after" values are HTML like "<i>" and "</i>" respectively, the "menu_title" isn't displayed in lieu of the original page title.

The underlying issue there is that the regex used in the "aioseop_list_pages" function no longer matches when there are tags within the body of the anchor. In the code there's a comment mentioning that the regex originally came from Sarah G's Page Menu Editor plugin so I went to original to see whether it had been updated. It has! I swapped in the updated regex and the plugin started working as expected.

I'm using version 1.6.12.1

I changed line 699 of "all_in_one_seo_pack.php" from:
$pattern = '/<li class="page_item page-item-(\d+)([^\"]*)"><a href=\"([^\"]+)" title="([^\"]+)">([^<]+)<\/a>/i';
to:
$pattern = '@<li class="page_item page-item-(\d+)([^\"]*)"><a href=\"([^\"]+)" title="([^\"]+)">(.*?)</a>@is';

Thanks!