problem with WordPress SEO and w3 total cache?

I was debugging a problem where jQuery loading seemed to be happening at the wrong time in Chrome and IE9, so I unchecked minify in w3 total cache. This gave me a white screen and the error logs filled with many lines that look like this:

[Fri Aug 16 11:02:18 2013] [error] [client 157.56.93.74] PHP Fatal error:  Cannot call overloaded function for non-object in /var/www/biobio/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 473
[Fri Aug 16 11:02:19 2013] [notice] child pid 5831 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

I also see this fatal error from WordPress SEO:

[Fri Aug 16 11:03:03 2013] [error] [client 74.197.139.252] PHP Fatal error:  Only variables can be passed by reference in /var/www/biobio/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/admin/ajax.php on line 17, refere
r: https://biochemistry.tamu.edu/wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_minify

Inactivating w3 total cache by renaming its directory and support files restored my site, but this might be a situation where WordPress SEO could fail more gracefully (if it’s reproducible). There may also be issues with the theme I’m using.

I’ve also posted on the w3 total cache support page.

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