diff --git a/admin/award_upload.php b/admin/award_upload.php
index cf5cca5..de6f7dc 100644
--- a/admin/award_upload.php
+++ b/admin/award_upload.php
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
 				curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$r->external_postback);
 				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 ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "xml=".$_POST['xmldata']);  /// put the query string here starting with "?"
+				curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "xml=$xmldata");  /// 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 ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 360);
@@ -192,16 +192,29 @@
 				curl_close ($ch); /// close the curl session
 				echo i18n("Response from server:");
 				$response=xml_parsexml($datastream);
-				$keys=array_keys($response);
-				if($keys[0]=="awardwinnersresponse") {
-					$status=$response['awardwinnersresponse'][0]['status'][0];
-					if($status=="success")
-						echo happy(i18n("Success"));
+				if($response && is_array($response)) {
+					$keys=array_keys($response);
+					if($keys[0]=="awardwinnersresponse") {
+						$status=$response['awardwinnersresponse'][0]['status'][0];
+						$statusmessage=$response['awardwinnersresponse'][0]['statusmessage'][0];
+						if($status=="success")
+							echo happy(i18n("Success: %1",array($statusmessage)));
+						else
+							echo error(ucfirst($status).": ".$statusmessage); //not translated, because it came right from the server!
+					}
 					else
-						echo error(ucfirst($status)); //not translated, because it came right from the server!
+					{
+						echo error(i18n("Invalid XML response.  Expecting '%1', received '%2'",array("awardwinnersresponse",$keys[0])));
+						echo "datastream: ".htmlspecialchars($datastream);
+					}
 				}
 				else
-					echo error(i18n("Invalid XML response.  Expecting '%1', received '%2'",array("awardwinnersresponse",$keys[0])));
+				{
+					echo error(i18n("Invalid response.  Couldn't parse XML or no data returned",array("awardwinnersresponse",$keys[0])));
+					echo "datastream: ".htmlspecialchars($datastream);
+
+				}
+
 			}
 			echo "<br />";
 		}