Problems when paginating search results

[eluser]Wayne Smallman[/eluser]
[quote author="Otemu" date="1358434834"]Have you tried $this->session->keep_flashdata('item');[/quote]I've just tried in place of flashdata() and it's made things worse by stopping pagination entirely.

I'm assuming that's not how it's supposed to be used, but the documentation isn't in the least clear on usage.