diff --git a/html/user/submit_rpc_handler.php b/html/user/submit_rpc_handler.php
index bae51231cf..0f8bb7c98c 100644
--- a/html/user/submit_rpc_handler.php
+++ b/html/user/submit_rpc_handler.php
@@ -496,8 +496,9 @@ function submit_batch($r) {
     } else {
         $batch_name = (string)($r->batch->batch_name);
         $batch_name = BoincDb::escape_string($batch_name);
+        $state = BATCH_STATE_INIT;
         $batch_id = BoincBatch::insert(
-            "(user_id, create_time, njobs, name, app_id, logical_end_time, state) values ($user->id, $now, $njobs, '$batch_name', $app->id, $let, ".BATCH_STATE_INIT.")"
+            "(user_id, create_time, logical_start_time, logical_end_time, est_completion_time, njobs, fraction_done, nerror_jobs, state, completion_time, credit_estimate, credit_canonical, credit_total, name, app_id, project_state, description, expire_time) values ($user->id, $now, 0, $let, 0, $njobs, 0, 0, $state, 0, 0, 0, 0, '$batch_name', $app->id, 0, '', 0)"
         );
         if (!$batch_id) {
             log_write("can't create batch");
@@ -550,8 +551,9 @@ function create_batch($r) {
     $batch_name = (string)($r->batch_name);
     $batch_name = BoincDb::escape_string($batch_name);
     $expire_time = (double)($r->expire_time);
+    $state = BATCH_STATE_INIT;
     $batch_id = BoincBatch::insert(
-        "(user_id, create_time, name, app_id, state, expire_time) values ($user->id, $now, '$batch_name', $app->id, ".BATCH_STATE_INIT.", $expire_time)"
+        "(user_id, create_time, logical_start_time, logical_end_time, est_completion_time, njobs, fraction_done, nerror_jobs, state, completion_time, credit_estimate, credit_canonical, credit_total, name, app_id, project_state, description, expire_time) values ($user->id, $now, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, $state, 0, 0, 0, 0, '$batch_name', $app->id, 0, '', $expire_time)"
     );
     if (!$batch_id) {
         log_write("Can't create batch: ".BoincDb::error());
diff --git a/lib/submit_api.py b/lib/submit_api.py
index bff5e4dc62..3228f7b509 100644
--- a/lib/submit_api.py
+++ b/lib/submit_api.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import urllib2
 import copy
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 import requests
-    # you'll need to "yip install requests"
+    # you'll need to "pip install requests"
 import hashlib
 
 # describes an input file
diff --git a/tools/submit_api_test.py b/tools/submit_api_test.py
index 65f9df57ef..06b17445de 100644
--- a/tools/submit_api_test.py
+++ b/tools/submit_api_test.py
@@ -192,11 +192,11 @@ def test_get_output_files():
 
 def test_get_job_counts():
     req = REQUEST()
-    req.project = 'http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test/'
+    [req.project, req.authenticator] = get_auth()
     x = get_job_counts(req)
     print x.find('results_ready_to_send').text
 
 #test_query_batch(328)
 #test_submit_batch('batch_39')
 set_timeout(10)
-test_create_batch('batch_138')
+test_create_batch('batch_140')