diff --git a/html/user/tree_threader.php b/html/user/tree_threader.php
index d80b1adf52..037fe6f40e 100644
--- a/html/user/tree_threader.php
+++ b/html/user/tree_threader.php
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ error_reporting(E_ALL);
 ini_set('display_errors', true);
 ini_set('display_startup_errors', true);
 
+$app_name = "uppercase";
+
 function error($s) {
     echo "<error>\n<message>$s</message>\n</error>\n";
     exit;
@@ -90,7 +92,45 @@ function handle_get_output($r, $batch) {
 
 xml_header();
 
+if (0) {
 $r = simplexml_load_string($_POST['request']);
+} else {
+$x = <<<EOF
+<tt_request>
+    <action>submit</action>
+    <sequence><![CDATA[
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+'''
+Add platform and application records to the BOINC database.
+Reads info from "project.xml", e.g.:
+
+<boinc>
+    <platform>
+        <name>i686-pc-linux-gnu</name>
+        <user_friendly_name>Linux/x86</user_friendly_name>
+    </platform>
+    <app>
+        <name>astropulse</name>
+        <user_friendly_name>AstroPulse</user_friendly_name>
+    </app>
+</boinc>
+
+See http://boinc.berkeley.edu/tool_xadd.php
+'''
+
+import boinc_path_config
+from Boinc import database, db_mid, projectxml
+
+database.connect()
+projectxml.default_project().commit_all()
+
+]]></sequence>
+    <auth>157f96a018b0b2f2b466e2ce3c7f54db</auth>
+</tt_request>
+EOF;
+$r = simplexml_load_string($x);
+}
 
 if (!$r) {
     error("can't parse request message");
@@ -99,11 +139,11 @@ if (!$r) {
 // authenticate the user
 //
 $auth = (string)$r->auth;
-$user = BoincUser::lookup("auth='$auth'");
+$user = BoincUser::lookup("authenticator='$auth'");
 if (!$user) error("invalid authenticator");
 $user_submit = BoincUserSubmit::lookup_userid($user->id);
 if (!$user_submit) error("no submit access");
-$app = BoincApp::lookup("name='tree_threader'");
+$app = BoincApp::lookup("name='$app_name'");
 if (!$app) error("no tree_threader app");
 
 if (!$user_submit->submit_all) {
@@ -113,7 +153,7 @@ if (!$user_submit->submit_all) {
     }
 }
 
-switch ($r->getName()) {
+switch ((string)$r->action) {
     case 'submit': handle_submit($r, $user, $app); break;
     case 'get_output':
 		$batch_id = (int)$r->batchid;
diff --git a/tools/tree_threader_splitter b/tools/tree_threader_splitter
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..0026bc87c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/tree_threader_splitter
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env php
+<?php
+
+// ./bin/tree_threader_splitter input_dir
+//
+// input_dir: a directory with a number of template files
+//
+// Split these into N groups, make each group into a zip file
+// named "tree_threader_template_T_i"
+// where T is the current time and i is the index.
+// Put these in the download hierarchy,
+// and write a file "tree_threader_template_files"
+// containing the file names
+
+$files_per_group = 10;
+
+require_once("html/inc/dir_hier.inc");
+
+if ($argc != 2) die("usage: tree_threader_splitter dir\n");
+if (!is_dir($argv[1])) die("usage: tree_threader_splitter dir\n");
+
+$now = time();
+$flist = fopen("tree_threader_template_files", "w");
+
+function start_group($i) {
+	global $now;
+	mkdir("/tmp/tree_threader_template_".$now."_$i");
+}
+
+function add_file_to_group($i, $path) {
+	global $now;
+	$dir = "/tmp/tree_threader_template_".$now."_$i";
+	$cmd = "cp $path $dir";
+	system($cmd);
+}
+
+$config = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents("config.xml"));
+if (!$config) die("can't parse config.xml");
+$fanout = (int)$config->config->uldl_dir_fanout;
+
+function finish_group($i) {
+	global $now, $fanout, $flist;
+	$dir = "tree_threader_template_".$now."_$i";
+    $dirpath = "/tmp/$dir";
+	$cmd = "zip -r $dirpath $dirpath";
+	system($cmd);
+	$f = "$dir.zip";
+	$path = dir_hier_path($f, "download", $fanout);
+	if (rename("/tmp/$f", $path)) {
+        echo "renamed /tmp/$f to $path\n";
+    } else {
+		die("can't rename /tmp/$f to $path\n");
+	}
+    fprintf($flist, "$f\n");
+}
+
+$dir = $argv[1];
+$d = opendir($dir);
+$igp = 0;
+$gpsize = 0;
+while (($f = readdir($d)) !== false) {
+    $p = "$dir/$f";
+    echo "processing $p\n";
+    if (!is_file($p)) continue;
+	if ($gpsize == 0) {
+		start_group($igp);
+	}
+	add_file_to_group($igp, $p);
+	$gpsize++;
+	if ($gpsize == $files_per_group) {
+		finish_group($igp);
+		$gpsize = 0;
+		$igp++;
+	}
+}
+if ($gpsize) {
+	finish_group($igp);
+}
+fclose($flist);
+
+?>
+
diff --git a/tools/tree_threader_splitter.php b/tools/tree_threader_splitter.php
deleted file mode 100644
index b42bc33898..0000000000
--- a/tools/tree_threader_splitter.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-// input: a directory with 6,000 template files
-//
-// Split these into N groups, make each group into a zip file,
-// put these in the download hierarchy,
-// and write a file containing the file names
-
-?>
diff --git a/tools/tt_boinc b/tools/tt_boinc
index 5841859696..630333f12c 100755
--- a/tools/tt_boinc
+++ b/tools/tt_boinc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 // from the Institute for Computing Technology in Beijing
 //
 
-define("PROJECT", "http://test.foo.bar");
+define("PROJECT", "http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test/");
 
 function usage() {
     die("
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ tt_boinc retire batchid auth
 }
 
 function do_http_op($xml) {
-    $ch = curl_init(PROJECT."/tree_threader.php");
+    $ch = curl_init(PROJECT."tree_threader.php");
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "request=$xml");
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ $seq
     list($reply, $errmsg) = do_http_op($req_xml);
     if ($errmsg) die("Error: $errmsg\n");
     $id = (int)$reply->id;
-    echo "batch ID: %d\n";
+    echo "batch ID: $id\n";
 }
 
 function handle_abort() {