diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index cd47638a9e..10568531bc 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -9847,3 +9847,19 @@ David  24 Oct 2007
             host.inc
         user/
             hosts_user.php
+
+David  24 Oct 2007
+    - client: fixed bug that broke idle detection on Unix.
+        The problem: the various checks were surrounded by things like
+        #ifdef HAVE__DEV_MOUSE
+        If the host on which the client is built doesn't have a mouse
+        (as is the case with our build machine)
+        then the resulting executable doesn't check /dev/mouse,
+        even if it exists on the target host.
+    - removed configure checks for /dev/mouse, /dev/kbd, and /dev/tty1
+
+    configure.ac
+    client/
+        hostinfo_unix.C
+    html/user/
+        create_profile.php
diff --git a/client/hostinfo_unix.C b/client/hostinfo_unix.C
index 196a9dddfa..14900150c4 100644
--- a/client/hostinfo_unix.C
+++ b/client/hostinfo_unix.C
@@ -895,8 +895,11 @@ static double GetOSXIdleTime(void) {
 
     if (tryNewAPI) {
         if (bundleRef == NULL) {
-            frameworkURL = CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath (kCFAllocatorSystemDefault, 
-                                CFSTR("/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework"), kCFURLPOSIXPathStyle, true);
+            frameworkURL = CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath(
+                kCFAllocatorSystemDefault, 
+                CFSTR("/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework"),
+                kCFURLPOSIXPathStyle, true
+            );
             if (frameworkURL) {
                 bundleRef = CFBundleCreate(kCFAllocatorSystemDefault, frameworkURL);
                 CFRelease( frameworkURL );
@@ -904,22 +907,27 @@ static double GetOSXIdleTime(void) {
         }
         
         if (bundleRef) {
-            if ( (GetSysIdleTime == NULL) || 
-                    ( ! CFBundleIsExecutableLoaded( bundleRef ) ) )     // Is this test necessary ?
-                GetSysIdleTime = (GetIdleTimeProc) 
-                            CFBundleGetFunctionPointerForName( bundleRef, CFSTR("CGEventSourceSecondsSinceLastEventType") );
+            if ((GetSysIdleTime == NULL) || !CFBundleIsExecutableLoaded(bundleRef)
+            ) {
+                    // Is this test necessary ?
+                GetSysIdleTime = (GetIdleTimeProc) CFBundleGetFunctionPointerForName(
+                    bundleRef, CFSTR("CGEventSourceSecondsSinceLastEventType")
+                );
+            }
         }
         
-        if (GetSysIdleTime)
+        if (GetSysIdleTime) {
             idleTime = (double)GetSysIdleTime (kCGEventSourceStateCombinedSessionState, kCGAnyInputEventType);
-        else {
+        } else {
             CFRelease( bundleRef );
             bundleRef = NULL;
-            tryNewAPI = false;  // CGEventSourceSecondsSinceLastEventType() API is not available on this system
+            tryNewAPI = false;
+            // CGEventSourceSecondsSinceLastEventType() API is not available on this system
         }
            
-        if (GetSysIdleTime) 
+        if (GetSysIdleTime) {
             return idleTime;
+        }
     }   // if (tryNewAPI)
     
     // On 10.3 use this SPI
@@ -927,6 +935,7 @@ static double GetOSXIdleTime(void) {
     // On MDD Powermacs, the above function will return a large value when the machine 
     // is active (-1?).  18446744073.0 is the lowest I've seen on my MDD -ai
     // Here we check for that value and correctly return a 0 idle time.
+    //
     idleTime = CGSSecondsSinceLastInputEvent (-1);
     if (idleTime >= 18446744000.0) idleTime = 0.0;
     return idleTime;
@@ -948,25 +957,19 @@ bool HOST_INFO::users_idle(
 #else  // ! __APPLE__
 
 bool HOST_INFO::users_idle(bool check_all_logins, double idle_time_to_run) {
-#ifdef HAVE__DEV_TTY1
-    char device_tty[] = "/dev/tty1";
-#endif
-    time_t idle_time = time(NULL) - (long) (60 * idle_time_to_run);
-    return true
-#ifdef HAVE_UTMP_H
-        && (!check_all_logins || all_logins_idle(idle_time))
-#endif
-#ifdef HAVE__DEV_MOUSE
-        && device_idle(idle_time, "/dev/mouse") // solaris, linux
-#endif
-#ifdef HAVE__DEV_KBD
-        && device_idle(idle_time, "/dev/kbd") // solaris
-#endif
-#ifdef HAVE__DEV_TTY1
-        && (check_all_logins || all_tty_idle(idle_time, device_tty, '1', 7))
-#endif
+    time_t idle_time = time(0) - (long) (60 * idle_time_to_run);
 
-        ;
+    if (check_all_logins) {
+#ifdef HAVE_UTMP_H
+        if (!all_logins_idle(idle_time)) return false;
+#endif
+        if (!all_tty_idle(idle_time, "/dev/tty1", '1', 7)) return false;
+    }
+    if (!device_idle(idle_time, "/dev/mouse")) return false;
+        // solaris, linux
+    if (!device_idle(idle_time, "/dev/kbd")) return false;
+        // solaris
+    return true;
 }
 
 #endif  // ! __APPLE__
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index eb33ac2d0a..a39d912f1a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -461,17 +461,6 @@ if test -n "$utmp_file"; then
     AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(UTMP_LOCATION, "$utmp_file", utmp file location)
 fi
 
-dnl Checks for device files
-if test -e "/dev/mouse"; then
-    AC_DEFINE(HAVE__DEV_MOUSE, 1, [Define to 1 if /dev/mouse exists])
-fi
-if test -e "/dev/kbd"; then
-    AC_DEFINE(HAVE__DEV_KBD, 1, [Define to 1 if /dev/kbd exists])
-fi
-if test -e "/dev/tty1"; then
-    AC_DEFINE(HAVE__DEV_TTY1, 1, [Define to 1 if /dev/tty1 exists])
-fi
-
 dnl Check for /proc/self/psinfo (Solaris)
 if test -e "/proc/self/psinfo"; then
     AC_DEFINE(HAVE__PROC_SELF_PSINFO, 1, [Define to 1 if /proc/self/psinfo exists])
diff --git a/html/user/create_profile.php b/html/user/create_profile.php
index 7c9e4b804f..644f0c8628 100644
--- a/html/user/create_profile.php
+++ b/html/user/create_profile.php
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ db_init();
 
 $user = get_logged_in_user(true);
 if ($user->total_credit > 0) {
-  show_profile_creation_page($user);
+    show_profile_creation_page($user);
 } else {
-  page_head("Not available");
-  echo "You must have returned results and received credit
+    page_head("Not available");
+    echo "You must have returned results and received credit
         before you can create a profile.
-  ";
-  page_tail();
+    ";
+    page_tail();
 }
 
 ?>