diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index 930829202f..50e1da1e96 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -3877,3 +3877,9 @@ David  4 July 2011
         parse.cpp,h
     html/user/
         openid_login.php
+
+David  5 July 2011
+    - update_versions: fix typo that produced bad XML
+
+    tools/
+        update_versions
diff --git a/doc/help_funcs.php b/doc/help_funcs.php
index f5be7c4d64..a15502b44f 100644
--- a/doc/help_funcs.php
+++ b/doc/help_funcs.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 function skype_status($skypeid) {
     $url = "http://mystatus.skype.com/$skypeid.xml";
-    $xml = file_get_contents($url);
+    $xml = @file_get_contents($url);
     $x = strstr($xml, "NUM\">");
     return (int)substr($x, 5, 1);
 }
diff --git a/tools/update_versions b/tools/update_versions
index 659cc7f5ce..69334f7bab 100755
--- a/tools/update_versions
+++ b/tools/update_versions
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ function process_version($a, $v, $p) {
     $xml .=
         "<app_version>\n".
         "    <app_name>".$app->name."</app_name>\n".
-        "    <version_num>".parse_version($v)."</version_name>\n".
+        "    <version_num>".parse_version($v)."</version_num>\n".
         "    <api_version>$api_version</api_version>\n"
     ;
     foreach ($fds as $fd) {