So I sold a bunch of stuff to a merchant on my warrior and I made a new character and went to the same merchant and the merchant had all of the items I had sold to him on a previous character. I mean the EXACT same stuff. Not sure if this intended or not, but I thought it might have something to do with a possible memory leak and the lag the ps3 is getting.
Someone else mentioned this last week. They said they had a mage character, and after restarting all the higher skill spell tomes that they unlocked with the mage character, were available right from the start of a new character. This is a very weird issue, it sounds like save files are bleeding into one another or something.