diff --git a/wp-admin/options-general.php b/wp-admin/options-general.php
index 4f0cda7b00..abb1ec4b63 100644
--- a/wp-admin/options-general.php
+++ b/wp-admin/options-general.php
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ include('options-head.php');
 <?php _e('Output:') ?> <strong><?php echo gmdate(get_settings('time_format'), current_time('timestamp')); ?></strong></td>
       	</tr> 
 </table>
+<pre><?php var_dump($cache_settings); ?></pre>
     </fieldset> 
     <p style="text-align: right;">
       <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="<?php _e('Update Options') ?>" />
diff --git a/wp-admin/options-writing.php b/wp-admin/options-writing.php
index 84b4d0d637..a8282bff13 100644
--- a/wp-admin/options-writing.php
+++ b/wp-admin/options-writing.php
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ include('options-head.php');
   <h2>Writing Options</h2> 
   <form name="form1" method="post" action="options.php"> 
     <input type="hidden" name="action" value="update" /> 
-    <input type="hidden" name="page_options" value="'default_post_edit_rows','blog_charset','use_smilies','use_balanceTags','advanced_edit','ping_sites','mailserver_url', 'mailserver_port','mailserver_login','mailserver_pass','default_category'" /> 
+    <input type="hidden" name="page_options" value="'default_post_edit_rows','use_smilies','use_balanceTags','advanced_edit','ping_sites','mailserver_url', 'mailserver_port','mailserver_login','mailserver_pass','default_category'" /> 
     <table width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" class="editform"> 
       <tr valign="top">
         <th scope="row"> <?php _e('When starting a post, show:') ?> </th>
diff --git a/wp-admin/options.php b/wp-admin/options.php
index e86b832d62..bb6f45cc4e 100644
--- a/wp-admin/options.php
+++ b/wp-admin/options.php
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ for ($i=0; $i<count($wpvarstoreset); $i += 1) {
 		}
 	}
 }
-$option_group_id = (int) $_GET['option_group_id'];
+if (isset($_GET['option_group_id'])) $option_group_id = (int) $_GET['option_group_id'];
 require_once('./optionhandler.php');
 $non_was_selected = 0;
 if ('' == $_GET['option_group_id']) {
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ $nonbools = array('default_ping_status', 'default_comment_status');
 				}
 				if( in_array($option->option_name, $nonbools) && $new_val == 0 ) $new_value = 'closed';
                 if ($new_val !== $old_val) {
-					$query = "UPDATE $tableoptions SET option_value = '$new_val' WHERE option_id = $option->option_id";
+					$query = "UPDATE $tableoptions SET option_value = '$new_val' WHERE option_name = '$option->option_name'";
 					$result = $wpdb->query($query);
 					//if( in_array($option->option_name, $nonbools)) die('boo'.$query);
 					if (!$result) {
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ $nonbools = array('default_ping_status', 'default_comment_status');
         $message .= $dB_errors . '<br />' . $validation_message;
     }
 
-	$goback = str_replace('?updated=true', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) . '?updated=true';
+	 if (strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], '?')) $goback = str_replace('&updated=true', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) . '&updated=true';
+	else $goback = str_replace('?updated=true', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) . '?updated=true';
     header('Location: ' . $goback);
     break;
 
diff --git a/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php b/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php
index 1c28e4ba70..3e5114debd 100644
--- a/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php
+++ b/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ function upgrade_110() {
 	// Add a gmt_offset option, with value $gmt_offset
 	if (!get_settings('gmt_offset')) {
 		if(!$wpdb->get_var("SELECT * FROM $tableoptions WHERE option_name = 'gmt_offset'")) {
-			$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_id, option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level) VALUES (94, 'gmt_offset', 8, $gmt_offset, 'The difference in hours between GMT and your timezone', 8)");
+			$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level) VALUES ('gmt_offset', 8, $gmt_offset, 'The difference in hours between GMT and your timezone', 8)");
 		}
 
 	}
diff --git a/wp-includes/functions.php b/wp-includes/functions.php
index 04d3d49adf..fc5ac6297a 100644
--- a/wp-includes/functions.php
+++ b/wp-includes/functions.php
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ function mysql2date($dateformatstring, $mysqlstring, $use_b2configmonthsdays = 1
 }
 
 function current_time($type, $gmt = 0) {
-	$time_difference = get_settings('time_difference');
 	switch ($type) {
 		case 'mysql':
 			if ($gmt) $d = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
@@ -300,9 +299,6 @@ function get_settings($setting) {
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	// until we switch to using 'gmt_offset' everywhere
-	$setting = str_replace('time_difference', 'gmt_offset', $setting);
-
 	if ( (empty($cache_settings)) ) {
 		$settings = get_alloptions();
 		$cache_settings = $settings;