diff --git a/admin/fair_stats.php b/admin/fair_stats.php
index cd57523..0e40f63 100644
--- a/admin/fair_stats.php
+++ b/admin/fair_stats.php
@@ -28,9 +28,8 @@
  require_once('xml.inc.php');
  require_once('stats.inc.php');
 
- function stats_to_xml($fair, $stats) 
+ function stats_to_ysf($fair, $stats) 
  {
- 	global $output;
 	if($fair['type'] == 'ysf') {
 		/* Map data into YSF tags */
 	 	$y=array();
@@ -51,22 +50,9 @@
 		$y["proj11up"]=$stats['projects_11'];
 		$y["committee"]=$stats['committee_members'];
 		$y["judges"]=$stats['judges'];
-		$xmldata=array("affiliation"=>array(
-				"ysf_region_id"=>$fair['username'],
-				"ysf_region_password"=>$fair['password'],
-				"year"=>$year,
-				"stats"=>$y)
-				);
-	} else {
-		$xmldata=array("sfiab"=>array(
-				"username"=>$fair['username'],
-				"password"=>$fair['password'],
-				"stats"=>$stats));
-	}
-
-	$output="";
-	xmlCreateRecurse($xmldata);
-	return $output;
+		return $y;
+	} 
+	return $stats;
  }
 	
 
@@ -89,14 +75,30 @@
  $server_config['fair_stats_scholarships'] = 'no';
  $server_config['fair_stats_delegates'] = 'no';
 
- function curl_query($fair, $xml)
+ function curl_query($fair, $data)
  {
+ 	global $output;
  	switch($fair['type']) {
 	case 'sfiab':
 		$url = $fair['url'].'/xmltransport.php';
+		$var = 'json';
+		$d = array();
+		$d['auth'] = array('username' => $fair['username'],
+				'password' => $fair['password']);
+		$str = json_encode(array_merge($d, $data));
 		break;
 	case 'ysf':
 		$url = "https://secure.ysf-fsj.ca/registration/xmlaffiliation.php";
+		$var = 'xml';
+		$d = array();
+		$d['affiliation'] = array(
+					"ysf_region_id"=>$fair['username'],
+					"ysf_region_password"=>$fair['password'],
+					"year"=>$year);
+		foreach($data as $k=>$v) $d['affiliation'][$k] = $v;
+		$output="";
+		xmlCreateRecurse($d);
+		$str = $output;
 		break;
 	}
 
@@ -104,25 +106,30 @@
 	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); /// Header control
 	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);  /// tell it to make a POST, not a GET
-	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "xml=".urlencode($xml));  /// put the query string here starting with "?"
+	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "$var=".urlencode($str));  /// put the query string here starting with "?"
 	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); /// This allows the output to be set into a variable $datastream
 	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, 0);
 	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 360);
 	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 3);
 	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
 	$datastream = curl_exec ($ch); /// execute the curl session and return the output to a variable $datastream
-	$datastream = str_replace(" standalone=\"yes\"","",$datastream);
 	curl_close ($ch); /// close the curl session
 
+//	echo "<pre>$datastream</pre>";
+
  	switch($fair['type']) {
 	case 'sfiab':
-		$d=xml_parsexml(urldecode($datastream));
-		$datastream = $d['sfiab'][0];
+		$ret=json_decode(urldecode($datastream), true);
 		break;
 	case 'ysf':
+		$datastream = str_replace(" standalone=\"yes\"","",$datastream);
+		/* Return is plaintext, make a return array */
+		$ret['error'] = 0;
+		$ret['message'] = $datastream;
 		break;
 	}
-	return $datastream;
+//	echo "ret: ";print_r($ret);echo "<br>";
+	return $ret;
  }
 
  if($_GET['year']) $year=intval($_GET['year']);
@@ -144,14 +151,18 @@
 		$stats[$k] = $_POST[$k];
 	}
 	$stats['year'] = $year;
- 	$xml = stats_to_xml($fair, $stats);
+	if($fair['type'] == 'ysf') {
+	 	$st = stats_to_ysf($fair, $stats);
+	} else {
+		$st = $stats;
+	}
 
  	if(function_exists('curl_init')) {
-		$r = curl_query($fair, $xml);
-		if($r['error'][0] == 0) 
-			echo happy(i18n("The %1 Server said:", array($fair['name'])).' '.$r['message'][0]);
+		$r = curl_query($fair, array('stats'=>$st));
+		if($r['error'] == 0) 
+			echo happy(i18n("The %1 Server said:", array($fair['name'])).' '.$r['message']);
 		else 
-			echo error(i18n("The %1 Server said:", array($fair['name'])).' '.$r['message'][0]);
+			echo error(i18n("The %1 Server said:", array($fair['name'])).' '.$r['message']);
 //		$fairs_id = -1;
 //		$year = $config['FAIRYEAR'];
 	} else {
@@ -195,19 +206,12 @@
 
  echo notice(i18n('Getting stats request and downloading existing stats from server %1', array($fair['url'])));
  /* Query the server to see what stats we need */
- $xmldata=array("sfiab"=>array(
-		"username"=>$fair['username'],
-		"password"=>$fair['password'],
-		"getstats"=>array('year'=>$year)));
+ $q=array('getstats' => array('year' => $year));
 
- $output="";
- xmlCreateRecurse($xmldata);
- $xml=$output;
+ $data = curl_query($fair, $q);
 
- $data = curl_query($fair, $xml);
-
- if($data['error'][0] != 0) {
- 	echo error("Server said: {$data['message'][0]}<br />");
+ if($data['error'] != 0) {
+ 	echo error("Server said: {$data['message']}<br />");
 	send_footer();
 	exit;
  }
@@ -218,7 +222,7 @@
  echo '<br /><br />';
 
  foreach($server_config as $k=>$v) {
-	$server_config[$k] = $data['statconfig'][0][$k][0];
+	$server_config[$k] = $data['statconfig'][$k];
  }
 
  /* Gather all stats, then we'll decide what to send */
@@ -226,9 +230,9 @@
  $stats['year'] = $year;
 
  /* Now, overwrite all the stats with what we pulled down from the server */
- if(is_array($data['stats'][0])) {
-	 foreach($data['stats'][0] as $k=>$v) {
- 		$stats[$k] = $v[0];
+ if(is_array($data['stats'])) {
+	 foreach($data['stats'] as $k=>$v) {
+ 		$stats[$k] = $v;
 	 }
  }
 // print_r($data['stats'][0]);