diff --git a/CollectionClass.inc b/CollectionClass.inc
index 0e518b6d..e50ca224 100644
--- a/CollectionClass.inc
+++ b/CollectionClass.inc
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 
 /**
  * @file
- * 
+ *
  * Collection Class Class
  */
- 
+
 /**
  * This CLASS caches the streams so once you call a getstream once it will always return
  * the same stream as long as you are using the instance of this class. Cached to
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ class CollectionClass {
   }
   
   public static function getCollectionQuery($pid) {
-    if ($query = self::getCollectionQueryFromStream($pid)) {
-      return $query;
-    }
-    else {
-      return self::getDefaultCollectionQuery($pid);
+    $query = self::getCollectionQueryFromStream($pid);
+    if (!$query) {
+      $query = self::getDefaultCollectionQuery($pid);
     }
+    drupal_alter("islandora_collection_query", $query, $pid);
+    return $query;
   }
   
   protected static function getCollectionQueryFromStream($pid) {
@@ -684,17 +684,17 @@ class CollectionClass {
    *   An array to be passed to drupal_render, containing a pager, an unordered
    *   list of items, and another pager.
    */
-  public static function assembleCollectionView($sparql_results) {
-    $per_page = 20; //XXX:  Make this configurable.
-    $pager_name = 0;
-    $total = count($sparql_results);
+  public static function assembleCollectionView($sparql_results) {
+    $per_page = 20; //XXX:  Make this configurable.
+    $pager_name = 0;
+    $total = count($sparql_results);
     $pager_page = self::hackPager($pager_name, $per_page, $total);
-    $max_title_length = 60;
-    
-    $results = array();
-    foreach (array_slice($sparql_results, $per_page * $pager_page, $per_page) as $result) {
+    $max_title_length = 60;
+    
+    $results = array();
+    foreach (array_slice($sparql_results, $per_page * $pager_page, $per_page) as $result) {
       $title = $result['title'];
-      $truncated_title = truncate_utf8($title, $max_title_length, TRUE, TRUE, 5);
+      $truncated_title = truncate_utf8($title, $max_title_length, TRUE, TRUE, 5);
       $obj_path = "fedora/repository/{$result['object']}";
       
       //Get a thumbnail
@@ -703,28 +703,28 @@ class CollectionClass {
         "$obj_path/TN");
       
       $thumbnail = _fedora_repository_render_image($tn_path);
-      
-      $results[] = array(
-          'data' => l($thumbnail, $obj_path, array(
-              'html' => TRUE,
-              'attributes' => array(
-                  'class' => 'results-image',
-              ),
-          )) . l($truncated_title, $obj_path, array('attributes' => array('class' => 'results-text'))),
-      );
-    }
-    if (!$results) {
-      drupal_set_message(t("No objects in this collection (or bad query)."));
-    }
-    else {
-      $first = $per_page * $pager_page;
-      $last = (($total - $first) > $per_page)?
-      ($first + $per_page):
-      $total;
-      $results_range_text = t('Results @first to @last of @total', array(
-          '@first' => $first + 1,
-          '@last' => $last,
-          '@total' => $total,
+      
+      $results[] = array(
+          'data' => l($thumbnail, $obj_path, array(
+              'html' => TRUE,
+              'attributes' => array(
+                  'class' => 'results-image',
+              ),
+          )) . l($truncated_title, $obj_path, array('attributes' => array('class' => 'results-text'))),
+      );
+    }
+    if (!$results) {
+      drupal_set_message(t("No objects in this collection (or bad query)."));
+    }
+    else {
+      $first = $per_page * $pager_page;
+      $last = (($total - $first) > $per_page)?
+      ($first + $per_page):
+      $total;
+      $results_range_text = t('Results @first to @last of @total', array(
+          '@first' => $first + 1,
+          '@last' => $last,
+          '@total' => $total,
       ));
       
       return array(
@@ -734,15 +734,15 @@ class CollectionClass {
         ),
         array(
           '#type' => 'markup',
-          '#value' => theme('item_list', $results, $result_range_text, 'ul', array(
-            'class' => 'islandora-collection-results-list',
+          '#value' => theme('item_list', $results, $result_range_text, 'ul', array(
+            'class' => 'islandora-collection-results-list',
           ))
         ),
         array(
           '#type' => 'markup',
           '#value' => theme('pager', array(), $per_page, $pager_name)
         ),
-      );
+      );
     }
   }
   
diff --git a/api/fedora_item.inc b/api/fedora_item.inc
index d4c8aff0..7fdd211c 100644
--- a/api/fedora_item.inc
+++ b/api/fedora_item.inc
@@ -347,7 +347,10 @@ RDF;
     $modified = FALSE;
     $rels = $relsextxml->getElementsByTagNameNS($namespaceURI, $relationship);
     if (!empty($rels)) {
-      foreach ($rels as $rel) {
+      // iterate backwards so if we delete something our pointer doesn't get out of sync
+      for ($i = $rels->length; $i>0; $i--) {
+        $rel = $rels->item($i-1);
+//      foreach ($rels as $rel) { // moving forward like this caused iteration errors when something was deleted
         if (  //If either no object is specified, or the object matches (in either the literal or URI case), remove this node from it's parent, and mark as changed.
           empty($object) || 
           (($literal_value == RELS_TYPE_URI) && $rel->getAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#', 'resource') == $object) ||