diff --git a/common.inc.php b/common.inc.php
index e76316df..ede669ce 100644
--- a/common.inc.php
+++ b/common.inc.php
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ session_start();
 
 //detect the browser first, so we know what icons to use - we store this in the config array as well
 //even though its not configurable by the fair
-if(stristr(get_value_from_array($_SERVER, 'HTTP_USER_AGENT', ""),"MSIE"))
+if(stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"MSIE"))
 	$config['icon_extension']="gif";
 else
 	$config['icon_extension']="png";
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ function happy($str,$type="normal")
 function display_messages()
 {
 	/* Dump any messages in the queue */
-	if(is_array(get_value_from_array($_SESSION, 'messages'))) {
+	if(is_array($_SESSION['messages'])) {
 		foreach($_SESSION['messages'] as $m) echo $m;
 	}
 	$_SESSION['messages'] = array();
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ if(substr(getcwd(),-6)=="/admin" || substr(getcwd(),-7)=="/config" || substr(get
 		$fname=substr($_SERVER['REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URL'],strlen($config['SFIABDIRECTORY'])+1);
 	else
 		$fname=substr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],strlen($config['SFIABDIRECTORY'])+1);	
-	echo "</td><td align=\"right\"><a target=\"_sfiabhelp\" href=\"http://www.sfiab.ca/wiki/index.php/Help_$fname\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"".$config['SFIABDIRECTORY']."/images/32/help_science_ation.".$config['icon_extension']."\"></a>";
+	echo "</td><td align=\"right\"><a target=\"_sfiabhelp\" href=\"http://www.sfiab.ca/wiki/index.php/Help_$fname\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"".$config['SFIABDIRECTORY']."/images/32/help.".$config['icon_extension']."\"></a>";
 }
 "</td></tr>";
 echo "</table>";