OS X Terminal text stacking on top of itself

Question

I\'m encountering a strange issue in the Terminal app in Mac OS X Lion. When I enter in a long line of text that should wrap to the next line when it reaches the edge of the

Answer 1

The original issue was that there was a new line in the PS1 (FYI for anybody running into this)

Typically its improperly escaped color codes, but if its not that its that you have a new line in your ps1