Hi,
Sorry to reply to my own email, but I just found out about the existance
of \g at addto@macro; using that instead of the patchcmd package solves the
problem:
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\Buffer}{}
\newcommand{\bref}[1]{%
\g at addto@macro\Buffer{\pageref{#1}}%
\ref{#1}}
\makeatother
Is the extraneous space a bug in patchcmd perhaps?
Edsko