diff --git a/apithreads.py b/apithreads.py
index b67847f..e810bcb 100644
--- a/apithreads.py
+++ b/apithreads.py
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@ class GetUserLists(ApiThread):
             try:
                 with self.api.lock:
                     lists = self.api.GetUserLists()
-            except (HTTPError, URLError):
+            except (HTTPError, URLError) as exception:
+                print 'debug: GetUserLists had error: ' + str(exception.code)
                 done = False
 
         self.sig_proxy.emit('lists-ready', lists, None)
diff --git a/hrafn.py b/hrafn.py
index 9ffba34..784e12d 100755
--- a/hrafn.py
+++ b/hrafn.py
@@ -64,18 +64,15 @@ class Hrafn():
         self.num_entries = int(config.get('global', 'entries'))
         self.refresh_time = int(config.get('global', 'refreshtime'))
 
+        if not self.db.has_key('active_user'):
+                self.db['active_user'] = None
+
         # Now set up the accounts and their corresponding APIs
         self.accounts = {}
         for token in self.db['tokens']:
             api = apithreads.CustomApi(token)
             self.add_account(api)
 
-        if not self.db.has_key('active_user'):
-            try:
-                self.db['active_user'] = self.accounts.keys()[0]
-            except IndexError:
-                self.db['active_user'] = None
-
         self.username = self.db['active_user']
 
         try:
@@ -148,7 +145,7 @@ class Hrafn():
 
 
     def update_account_label(self):
-        if self.username:
+        if self.username is not None:
             self.account_label.set_text(self.username + ': ')
 
 
diff --git a/oauthtwitter.py b/oauthtwitter.py
index d36d003..940f34d 100755
--- a/oauthtwitter.py
+++ b/oauthtwitter.py
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # 
 # Copyright under  the latest Apache License 2.0
+#
+# Patched for hrafn to include fixes to issues 2, 3, 9, 10
+#
+# Additional patch to make it work with the 'dev' branch of python-twitter
 
 '''A class the inherits everything from python-twitter and allows oauth based access
 
@@ -17,9 +21,12 @@ __version__ = "0.2"
 from twitter import Api,NewUserFromJsonDict
 from twitter_pb2 import User
 
+import logging
 import simplejson
 import oauth.oauth as oauth
-
+import time
+from urllib import urlencode
+from urllib2 import BaseHandler
 
 
 # Taken from oauth implementation at: http://github.com/harperreed/twitteroauth-python/tree/master
@@ -28,6 +35,17 @@ ACCESS_TOKEN_URL = 'https://twitter.com/oauth/access_token'
 AUTHORIZATION_URL = 'http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize'
 SIGNIN_URL = 'http://twitter.com/oauth/authenticate'
 
+class LoggingHandler(BaseHandler):
+    """ debugging handler that logs HTTP errors """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        # ensures that this handler runs first
+        self.handler_order=0
+
+    def http_error_default(self, req, fp, code, msg, hdrs):
+        logging.debug("%s %s: %s" % (code, msg, fp.read()))
+
+
 
 class OAuthApi(Api):
     def __init__(self, consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token=None):
@@ -41,7 +59,7 @@ class OAuthApi(Api):
 
 
     def _GetOpener(self):
-        opener = self._urllib.build_opener()
+        opener = self._urllib.build_opener(LoggingHandler())
         return opener
 
     def _FetchUrl(self,
@@ -73,8 +91,9 @@ class OAuthApi(Api):
         # Add key/value parameters to the query string of the url
         #url = self._BuildUrl(url, extra_params=extra_params)
     
-        if post_data:
+        if post_data is not None:
             http_method = "POST"
+            post_data=dict([(k, self._Encode(v)) for k, v in post_data.items()])
             extra_params.update(post_data)
         else:
             http_method = "GET"
@@ -87,37 +106,33 @@ class OAuthApi(Api):
         # Get a url opener that can handle Oauth basic auth
         opener = self._GetOpener()
         
-        #encoded_post_data = self._EncodePostData(post_data)
 
-        if post_data:
+        if post_data is not None:
             encoded_post_data = req.to_postdata()
-            url = req.get_normalized_http_url()
+            req_url = req.get_normalized_http_url()
         else:
-            url = req.to_url()
-            encoded_post_data = ""
-            
-        no_cache=True
+            encoded_post_data = None
+            req_url = req.to_url()
+
+
         # Open and return the URL immediately if we're not going to cache
         # OR we are posting data
-        if encoded_post_data or no_cache:
-          if encoded_post_data:
-              url_data = opener.open(url, encoded_post_data).read()
-          else:
-              url_data = opener.open(url).read()
+        if encoded_post_data or no_cache or not self._cache or not self._cache_timeout:
+          url_data = opener.open(req_url, encoded_post_data).read()
           opener.close()
         else:
           # Unique keys are a combination of the url and the username
           if self._username:
-            key = self._username + ':' + url
+            key = self._username + ':' + url + '?' + urlencode(extra_params)
           else:
-            key = url
+            key = url + '?' + urlencode(extra_params)
     
           # See if it has been cached before
           last_cached = self._cache.GetCachedTime(key)
     
           # If the cached version is outdated then fetch another and store it
           if not last_cached or time.time() >= last_cached + self._cache_timeout:
-            url_data = opener.open(url).read()
+            url_data = opener.open(req_url, encoded_post_data).read()
             opener.close()
             self._cache.Set(key, url_data)
           else:
@@ -198,7 +213,7 @@ class OAuthApi(Api):
         token = oauth.OAuthToken.from_string(resp)
         return token
     
-    def GetUserInfo(self, url='https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.json'):
+    def GetUserInfo(self, url='http://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.json'):
         '''Get user information from twitter
         
         Returns: