diff --git a/lib/WebGUI/Wobject/SyndicatedContent.pm b/lib/WebGUI/Wobject/SyndicatedContent.pm
index 89340f2d4..a78de2e1a 100644
--- a/lib/WebGUI/Wobject/SyndicatedContent.pm
+++ b/lib/WebGUI/Wobject/SyndicatedContent.pm
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ use WebGUI::Session;
 use WebGUI::Wobject;
 use XML::RSSLite;
 use LWP::UserAgent;
-use WebGUI::ErrorHandler;
 
 our @ISA = qw(WebGUI::Wobject);
 
@@ -45,8 +44,7 @@ sub new {
 			rssUrl=>{},
                         maxHeadlines=>{},
 			},
-		-useTemplate=>1,
-		-useMetaData=>1
+		-useTemplate=>1
                 );
         bless $self, $class;
 }
@@ -183,25 +181,11 @@ sub _get_rss_data {
                 my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(timeout => 5);
                 my $response = $ua->get($url);
                 if (!$response->is_success()) {
-                        WebGUI::ErrorHandler::warn("Error retrieving url '$url': " . 
+                        warn("Error retrieving url '$url': " . 
                              $response->status_line());
                         return undef;
                 }
                 my $xml = $response->content();
-
-		# Convert encoding if needed / Perl 5.8.0 or up required.
-		if ($] >= 5.008) {
-			$xml =~ /<\?xml.*?encoding=['"](\S+)['"]/i;
-			my $xmlEncoding = $1;
-			my $encoding = WebGUI::International::getLanguage($session{page}{languageId},"charset");
-			if (lc($xmlEncoding) ne lc($encoding)) {
-				use Encode qw(from_to);
-				eval {	from_to($xml, $xmlEncoding, $encoding) };
-				WebGUI::ErrorHandler::warn($@) if ($@);
-			}
-				
-		}
-
                 
                 # there is no encode_entities_numeric that I can find, so I am 
                 # commenting this out. -hal
@@ -213,7 +197,7 @@ sub _get_rss_data {
                         XML::RSSLite::parseXML($rss_lite, \$xml);
                 };
                 if ($@) {
-                        WebGUI::ErrorHandler::warn("error parsing rss for url $url");
+                        warn("error parsing rss for url $url");
                 }
                 
                 # make sure that the {channel} points to the channel 
@@ -224,10 +208,10 @@ sub _get_rss_data {
                 $rss_lite = {channel => $rss_lite};
                 if (!($rss->{channel} = 
                       _find_record($rss_lite, qr/^channel$/))) {
-                        WebGUI::ErrorHandler::warn("unable to find channel info for url $url");
+                        warn("unable to find channel info for url $url");
                 }
                 if (!($rss->{items} = _find_record($rss_lite, qr/^items?$/))) {
-                        WebGUI::ErrorHandler::warn("unable to find item info for url $url");
+                        warn("unable to find item info for url $url");
                         $rss->{items} = [];
                 }
                 
@@ -345,7 +329,6 @@ sub _view_single_feed {
 }
 
 sub www_view {
-	$_[0]->logView() if ($session{setting}{passiveProfilingEnabled});
         my $maxHeadlines = $_[0]->get("maxHeadlines") || 1000000;
 
         my @urls = split(/\s+/,$_[0]->get("rssUrl"));