This might not be appropriate, since your problem is different, but I remember a problem in one of my programs: Contains() would not work (in my case it would throw an Exception when evaluating), so maybe the Contains-method is a bit broken.
Linq to sql doesn't specify values directly into the query, it uses parameters. Are you sure it had the contains parameter value directly in the sql?
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