Geospatial lookup with wildcards causes an error in Solr query

[dedickinson]

A wildcard in the query from ReDBox form fields causes a Solr error when the search is put together in the Geonames query:

2011-08-18 10:23:58,956 ERROR SolrCore org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException: Cannot parse '((basic_name_str:(deakin university ) AND basic_name_rev:( ytisrevinu nikaed))^10 OR (basic_name_str:(deakin university ))^4 OR (basic_name:(deakin university *) OR basic_name:(deakin university )))^0.2 AND boost:boost^10': '' or '?' not allowed as first character in WildcardQuery

Even a space character causes trouble: "deakin "