Gnome-terminal weird square

Hello,
I'm having a problem with gnome-terminal. I'm getting a weird square where it should just be a directory listing.
http://i36.tinypic.com/aw49k3.jpg - Pictures are better than words.
The character encoding is set to UTF-8, and my PS1="" line is:
PS1="\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:(\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\])\$ "
I don't have this problem in urxvt... Any ideas?

Looks like an escape was missing. Not sure why urxvt wasn't affected...
Does the following work as desired?
PS1="\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:(\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\])\$ "
cheers,

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