diff --git a/wp-admin/post.php b/wp-admin/post.php
index 0a67f41413..4f453dfeb5 100644
--- a/wp-admin/post.php
+++ b/wp-admin/post.php
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ return $array;
 }
 
 if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
-$_GET    = add_magic_quotes($_GET);
-$_POST   = add_magic_quotes($_POST);
-$_COOKIE = add_magic_quotes($_COOKIE);
+	$_GET    = add_magic_quotes($_GET);
+	$_POST   = add_magic_quotes($_POST);
+	$_COOKIE = add_magic_quotes($_COOKIE);
 }
 
 $wpvarstoreset = array('action', 'safe_mode', 'withcomments', 'posts', 'poststart', 'postend', 'content', 'edited_post_title', 'comment_error', 'profile', 'trackback_url', 'excerpt', 'showcomments', 'commentstart', 'commentend', 'commentorder', 'enclosure_url' );
@@ -37,46 +37,47 @@ if (!isset($$wpvar)) {
 
 switch($action) {
 case 'post':
-		$standalone = 1;
-		require_once('admin-header.php');
+	$standalone = 1;
+	require_once('admin-header.php');
 
-        $post_ID = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 1") + 1;
+	$post_ID = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT MAX(ID) FROM $wpdb->posts") + 1;
 
-		$post_pingback = intval($_POST['post_pingback']);
-		$content = apply_filters('content_save_pre', $_POST['content']);
-		$content = format_to_post($content);
-		$excerpt = apply_filters('excerpt_save_pre',$_POST['excerpt']);
-		$excerpt = format_to_post($excerpt);
-		$post_title = $_POST['post_title'];
-		$post_categories = $_POST['post_category'];
-		$post_status = $_POST['post_status'];
-		$post_name = $_POST['post_name'];
-		$post_parent = 0;
-		if (isset($_POST['parent_id'])) {
-			$post_parent = $_POST['parent_id'];
-		}
+	$post_pingback = intval($_POST['post_pingback']);
+	$content = apply_filters('content_save_pre', $_POST['content']);
+	$content = format_to_post($content);
+	$excerpt = apply_filters('excerpt_save_pre',$_POST['excerpt']);
+	$excerpt = format_to_post($excerpt);
+	$post_title = $_POST['post_title'];
+	$post_categories = $_POST['post_category'];
+	$post_status = $_POST['post_status'];
+	$post_name = $_POST['post_name'];
+	$post_parent = 0;
 
-		if (empty($post_status)) $post_status = 'draft';
-		// Double-check
-		if ( 'publish' == $post_status && 1 == $user_level && 2 != get_option('new_users_can_blog') )
-			$post_status = 'draft';
-		$comment_status = $_POST['comment_status'];
-		if (empty($comment_status)) $comment_status = get_settings('default_comment_status');
-		$ping_status = $_POST['ping_status'];
-		if (empty($ping_status)) $ping_status = get_settings('default_ping_status');
-		$post_password = $_POST['post_password'];
-		
-		if (empty($post_name)) {
-			if (! empty($post_title)) {
-				$post_name = sanitize_title($post_title, $post_ID);
-			}
-		} else {
-			$post_name = sanitize_title($post_name, $post_ID);
-		}
+	if ( isset($_POST['parent_id']) )
+		$post_parent = $_POST['parent_id'];
 
-		$trackback = $_POST['trackback_url'];
-	// Format trackbacks
-	$trackback = preg_replace('|\s+|', '\n', $trackback);
+	if ( empty($post_status) )
+		$post_status = 'draft';
+	// Double-check
+	if ( 'publish' == $post_status && 1 == $user_level && 2 != get_option('new_users_can_blog') )
+		$post_status = 'draft';
+	$comment_status = $_POST['comment_status'];
+	if ( empty($comment_status) )
+		$comment_status = get_option('default_comment_status');
+	$ping_status = $_POST['ping_status'];
+	if ( empty($ping_status) )
+		$ping_status = get_option('default_ping_status');
+	$post_password = $_POST['post_password'];
+	
+	if ( empty($post_name) ) {
+		if ( !empty($post_title) )
+			$post_name = sanitize_title($post_title, $post_ID);
+	} else {
+		$post_name = sanitize_title($post_name, $post_ID);
+	}
+
+	$trackback = $_POST['trackback_url'];
+	$trackback = preg_replace('|\s+|', "\n", $trackback);
 
 	if ($user_level == 0)
 		die (__('Cheatin’ uh?'));
@@ -92,11 +93,11 @@ case 'post':
 		$hh = ($hh > 23) ? $hh - 24 : $hh;
 		$mn = ($mn > 59) ? $mn - 60 : $mn;
 		$ss = ($ss > 59) ? $ss - 60 : $ss;
-	$now = "$aa-$mm-$jj $hh:$mn:$ss";
-	$now_gmt = get_gmt_from_date("$aa-$mm-$jj $hh:$mn:$ss");
+		$now = "$aa-$mm-$jj $hh:$mn:$ss";
+		$now_gmt = get_gmt_from_date("$aa-$mm-$jj $hh:$mn:$ss");
 	} else {
-	$now = current_time('mysql');
-	$now_gmt = current_time('mysql', 1);
+		$now = current_time('mysql');
+		$now_gmt = current_time('mysql', 1);
 	}
 
 	// What to do based on which button they pressed
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ case 'post':
 	$postquery ="INSERT INTO $wpdb->posts
 			(ID, post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_content, post_title, post_excerpt,  post_status, comment_status, ping_status, post_password, post_name, to_ping, post_modified, post_modified_gmt, post_parent)
 			VALUES
-			('0', '$user_ID', '$now', '$now_gmt', '$content', '$post_title', '$excerpt', '$post_status', '$comment_status', '$ping_status', '$post_password', '$post_name', '$trackback', '$now', '$now_gmt', '$post_parent')
+			('$post_ID', '$user_ID', '$now', '$now_gmt', '$content', '$post_title', '$excerpt', '$post_status', '$comment_status', '$ping_status', '$post_password', '$post_name', '$trackback', '$now', '$now_gmt', '$post_parent')
 			";
 
 	$result = $wpdb->query($postquery);
@@ -127,8 +128,9 @@ case 'post':
 			break;
 		}
 	} else {
-		$location = 'post.php';
+		$location = 'post.php?posted=true';
 	}
+
 	if ( '' != $_POST['advanced'] || isset($_POST['save']) )
 		$location = "post.php?action=edit&post=$post_ID";
 
@@ -137,15 +139,14 @@ case 'post':
 
 	header("Location: $location"); // Send user on their way while we keep working
 
-
 	// Insert categories
 	// Check to make sure there is a category, if not just set it to some default
-	if (!$post_categories) $post_categories[] = 1;
+	if (!$post_categories) $post_categories[] = get_option('default_category');
 	foreach ($post_categories as $post_category) {
 		// Double check it's not there already
 		$exists = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->post2cat WHERE post_id = $post_ID AND category_id = $post_category");
 
-		 if (!$exists && $result) { 
+		 if (!$exists) { 
 			$wpdb->query("
 			INSERT INTO $wpdb->post2cat
 			(post_id, category_id)
@@ -158,44 +159,18 @@ case 'post':
 	add_meta($post_ID);
 
 	$wpdb->query("UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET guid = '" . get_permalink($post_ID) . "' WHERE ID = '$post_ID'");
-	
-	if (isset($sleep_after_edit) && $sleep_after_edit > 0) {
-			sleep($sleep_after_edit);
-	}
 
-	if ($post_status == 'publish') {
+	do_action('save_post', $post_ID);
 
-		if ($post_pingback) {
+	if ('publish' == $post_status) {
+		if ($post_pingback)
 			pingback($content, $post_ID);
-		}
-		
+		do_trackbacks($post_ID);
 		do_action('publish_post', $post_ID);
-
-		// Time for trackbacks
-		$to_ping = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT to_ping FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post_ID");
-		$pinged = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT pinged FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post_ID");
-		$pinged = explode("\n", $pinged);
-		if ('' != $to_ping) {
-			if (strlen($excerpt) > 0) {
-				$the_excerpt = (strlen(strip_tags($excerpt)) > 255) ? substr(strip_tags($excerpt), 0, 252) . '...' : strip_tags($excerpt)	;
-			} else {
-				$the_excerpt = (strlen(strip_tags($content)) > 255) ? substr(strip_tags($content), 0, 252) . '...' : strip_tags($content);
-			}
-			$excerpt = stripslashes($the_excerpt);
-			$to_pings = explode("\n", $to_ping);
-			foreach ($to_pings as $tb_ping) {
-				$tb_ping = trim($tb_ping);
-				if (!in_array($tb_ping, $pinged)) {
-				 trackback($tb_ping, stripslashes($post_title), $excerpt, $post_ID);
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-	} // end if publish
+	}
 
 	if ($post_status == 'static') {
 		generate_page_rewrite_rules();
-
 		add_post_meta($post_ID, '_wp_page_template',  $_POST['page_template'], true);
 	}
 
@@ -349,7 +324,7 @@ case 'editpost':
 	} else {
 		$location = 'post.php';
 	}
-	header ('Location: ' . $location); // Send user on their way while we keep working
+	//header ('Location: ' . $location); // Send user on their way while we keep working
 
 $now = current_time('mysql');
 $now_gmt = current_time('mysql', 1);
@@ -402,10 +377,6 @@ $now_gmt = current_time('mysql', 1);
 		if (!in_array($new_cat, $old_categories))
 			$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->post2cat (post_id, category_id) VALUES ($post_ID, $new_cat)");
 	}
-	
-	if (isset($sleep_after_edit) && $sleep_after_edit > 0) {
-		sleep($sleep_after_edit);
-	}
 
         // Enclosures
         $enclosures = split( "   ", $enclosure_url );
@@ -446,35 +417,15 @@ $now_gmt = current_time('mysql', 1);
             } 
         }
 
-	// are we going from draft/private to published?
-	if ($prev_status != 'publish' && $post_status == 'publish') {
-		if ($post_pingback) {
-			pingback($content, $post_ID);
-		}
-	} // end if moving from draft/private to published
+	if ($prev_status != 'publish' && $post_status == 'publish')
+		do_action('private_to_published', $post_ID);
+
 	if ($post_status == 'publish') {
 		do_action('publish_post', $post_ID);
-
-		// Trackback time.
-		$to_ping = trim($wpdb->get_var("SELECT to_ping FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post_ID"));
-		$pinged = trim($wpdb->get_var("SELECT pinged FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post_ID"));
-		$pinged = explode("\n", $pinged);
-		if ('' != $to_ping) {
-			if (strlen($excerpt) > 0) {
-				$the_excerpt = (strlen(strip_tags($excerpt)) > 255) ? substr(strip_tags($excerpt), 0, 252) . '...' : strip_tags($excerpt)	;
-			} else {
-				$the_excerpt = (strlen(strip_tags($content)) > 255) ? substr(strip_tags($content), 0, 252) . '...' : strip_tags($content);
-			}
-			$excerpt = stripslashes($the_excerpt);
-			$to_pings = explode("\n", $to_ping);
-			foreach ($to_pings as $tb_ping) {
-				$tb_ping = trim($tb_ping);
-				if (!in_array($tb_ping, $pinged)) {
-				 trackback($tb_ping, stripslashes($post_title), $excerpt, $post_ID);
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	} // end if publish
+		do_trackbacks($post_ID);
+		if ( get_option('default_pingback_flag') )
+			pingback($content, $post_ID);
+	}
 
 	if ($post_status == 'static') {
 		generate_page_rewrite_rules();
@@ -499,8 +450,8 @@ case 'delete':
 		die ('Cheatin’ uh?');
 
 	$post_id = intval($_GET['post']);
-	$postdata = get_postdata($post_id) or die(sprintf(__('Oops, no post with this ID. <a href="%s">Go back</a>!'), 'post.php'));
-	$authordata = get_userdata($postdata['Author_ID']);
+	$postdata = $post = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = '$post_id'") or die(sprintf(__('Oops, no post with this ID. <a href="%s">Go back</a>!'), 'post.php'));
+	$authordata = get_userdata($postdata->post_author);
 
 	if ($user_level < $authordata->user_level)
 		die (sprintf(__('You don&#8217;t have the right to delete <strong>%s</strong>&#8217;s posts.'), $authordata[1]));
@@ -515,10 +466,6 @@ case 'delete':
 
     $meta = $wpdb->query("DELETE FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE post_id = $post_id");
 
-	if (isset($sleep_after_edit) && $sleep_after_edit > 0) {
-		sleep($sleep_after_edit);
-	}
-
 	$sendback = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
 	if (strstr($sendback, 'post.php')) $sendback = get_settings('siteurl') .'/wp-admin/post.php';
 	$sendback = preg_replace('|[^a-z0-9-~+_.?#=&;,/:]|i', '', $sendback);
diff --git a/wp-includes/functions-post.php b/wp-includes/functions-post.php
index 81394d884c..48d5fc9ea5 100644
--- a/wp-includes/functions-post.php
+++ b/wp-includes/functions-post.php
@@ -360,16 +360,13 @@ function wp_new_comment($commentdata) {
 
 	$comment_author = strip_tags($comment_author);
 	$comment_author = htmlspecialchars($comment_author);
-	$comment_author = $wpdb->escape($comment_author);
 
 	$comment_author_email = preg_replace('/[^a-z+_.@-]/i', '', $comment_author_email);
 
 	$comment_author_url = strip_tags($comment_author_url);
 	$comment_author_url = htmlspecialchars($comment_author_url);
-	$comment_author_url = $wpdb->escape($comment_author_url);
 
 	$comment_content = apply_filters('comment_content_presave', $comment_content);
-	$comment_content = $wpdb->escape($comment_content);
 
 	$user_ip = addslashes($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
 	$user_domain = addslashes( gethostbyaddr($user_ip) );
@@ -406,4 +403,52 @@ function wp_new_comment($commentdata) {
 	return $result;
 }
 
+function do_trackbacks($post_id) {
+	global $wpdb;
+
+	$post = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post_id");
+	$to_ping = get_to_ping($post_id);
+	$pinged  = get_pung($post_id);
+	$content = strip_tags($post->post_content);
+	$excerpt = strip_tags($post->post_excerpt);
+	$post_title = strip_tags($post->post_title);
+
+	if ( $excerpt )
+		$excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, 252) . '...';
+	else
+		$excerpt = substr($content, 0, 252) . '...';
+
+	if ($to_ping) : foreach ($to_ping as $tb_ping) :
+		$tb_ping = trim($tb_ping);
+		if ( !in_array($tb_ping, $pinged) )
+		 trackback($tb_ping, $post_title, $excerpt, $post_id);
+	endforeach; endif;
+}
+
+function get_pung($post_id) { // Get URIs already pung for a post
+	global $wpdb;
+	$pung = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT pinged FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post_id");
+	$pung = trim($pung);
+	$pung = preg_split('/\s/', $pung);
+	return $pung;
+}
+
+function get_to_ping($post_id) { // Get any URIs in the todo list
+	global $wpdb;
+	$to_ping = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT to_ping FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post_id");
+	$to_ping = trim($to_ping);
+	$to_ping = preg_split('/\s/', $to_ping);
+	return $to_ping;
+}
+
+function add_ping($post_id, $uri) { // Add a URI to those already pung
+	global $wpdb;
+	$pung = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT pinged FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post_id");
+	$pung = trim($pung);
+	$pung = preg_split('/\s/', $pung);
+	$pung[] = $uri;
+	$new = implode("\n", $pung);
+	return $wpdb->query("UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET pinged = '$new' WHERE ID = $post_id");
+}
+
 ?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/wp-includes/functions.php b/wp-includes/functions.php
index f628b27261..e36ba2a26d 100644
--- a/wp-includes/functions.php
+++ b/wp-includes/functions.php
@@ -734,20 +734,21 @@ function debug_fclose($fp) {
 }
 
 function pingback($content, $post_ID) {
-
-	global $wp_version;
+	global $wp_version, $wpdb;
 	include_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-IXR.php');
 
 	// original code by Mort (http://mort.mine.nu:8080)
-	$log = debug_fopen('./pingback.log', 'a');
+	$log = debug_fopen(ABSPATH . '/pingback.log', 'a');
 	$post_links = array();
 	debug_fwrite($log, 'BEGIN '.date('YmdHis', time())."\n");
 
+	$pung = get_pung($post_ID);
+
 	// Variables
 	$ltrs = '\w';
 	$gunk = '/#~:.?+=&%@!\-';
 	$punc = '.:?\-';
-	$any = $ltrs.$gunk.$punc;
+	$any = $ltrs . $gunk . $punc;
 
 	// Step 1
 	// Parsing the post, external links (if any) are stored in the $post_links array
@@ -768,25 +769,23 @@ function pingback($content, $post_ID) {
 	// http://dummy-weblog.org/post.php
 	// We don't wanna ping first and second types, even if they have a valid <link/>
 
-	foreach($post_links_temp[0] as $link_test){
-		$test = parse_url($link_test);
-		if (isset($test['query'])) {
-			$post_links[] = $link_test;
-		} elseif(($test['path'] != '/') && ($test['path'] != '')) {
-			$post_links[] = $link_test;
-		}
-	}
+	foreach($post_links_temp[0] as $link_test) :
+		if ( !in_array($link_test, $pung) ) : // If we haven't pung it already
+			$test = parse_url($link_test);
+			if (isset($test['query']))
+				$post_links[] = $link_test;
+			elseif(($test['path'] != '/') && ($test['path'] != ''))
+				$post_links[] = $link_test;
+		endif;
+	endforeach;
 
 	foreach ($post_links as $pagelinkedto){
-
 		debug_fwrite($log, "Processing -- $pagelinkedto\n");
 		$pingback_server_url = discover_pingback_server_uri($pagelinkedto, 2048);
 
-		if($pingback_server_url) {
-
+		if ($pingback_server_url) {
 			 // Now, the RPC call
-			$method = 'pingback.ping';
-			debug_fwrite($log, 'Page Linked To: '.$pagelinkedto."\n");
+			debug_fwrite($log, "Page Linked To: $pagelinkedto \n");
 			debug_fwrite($log, 'Page Linked From: ');
 			$pagelinkedfrom = get_permalink($post_ID);
 			debug_fwrite($log, $pagelinkedfrom."\n");
@@ -794,19 +793,20 @@ function pingback($content, $post_ID) {
 			// using a timeout of 3 seconds should be enough to cover slow servers
 			$client = new IXR_Client($pingback_server_url);
 			$client->timeout = 3;
-			$client->useragent .= ' -- WordPress/'.$wp_version;
+			$client->useragent .= ' -- WordPress/' . $wp_version;
 
 			// when set to true, this outputs debug messages by itself
 			$client->debug = false;
 			$client->query('pingback.ping', array($pagelinkedfrom, $pagelinkedto)); 
-
-			if (!$client->query('pingback.ping', array($pagelinkedfrom, $pagelinkedto))) {
+			
+			if ( !$client->query('pingback.ping', array($pagelinkedfrom, $pagelinkedto) ) )
 				debug_fwrite($log, "Error.\n Fault code: ".$client->getErrorCode()." : ".$client->getErrorMessage()."\n");
-			}
+			else
+				add_ping( $post_ID, $pagelinkedto );
 		}
 	}
 
-	debug_fwrite($log, "\nEND: ".time()."\n****************************\n\r");
+	debug_fwrite($log, "\nEND: ".time()."\n****************************\n");
 	debug_fclose($log);
 }
 
@@ -1607,12 +1607,7 @@ function update_post_caches($posts) {
     }
 
     // Get post-meta info
-    if ( $meta_list = $wpdb->get_results("
-			SELECT post_id,meta_key,meta_value 
-			FROM $wpdb->postmeta 
-			WHERE post_id IN($post_id_list)
-			ORDER BY post_id,meta_key
-		", ARRAY_A) ) {
+    if ( $meta_list = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT post_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta  WHERE post_id IN($post_id_list) ORDER BY post_id, meta_key", ARRAY_A) ) {
 		
         // Change from flat structure to hierarchical:
         $post_meta_cache = array();
diff --git a/wp-settings.php b/wp-settings.php
index 52fd807c6a..98cc1d04f8 100644
--- a/wp-settings.php
+++ b/wp-settings.php
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ $tablepostmeta = $wpdb->postmeta;
 
 require (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/functions.php');
 require (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/functions-formatting.php');
+require (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/functions-post.php');
 require (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/classes.php');
 require (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/template-functions.php');
 require (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/links.php');
diff --git a/wp-trackback.php b/wp-trackback.php
index d268a265f9..4ae183f234 100644
--- a/wp-trackback.php
+++ b/wp-trackback.php
@@ -1,12 +1,27 @@
 <?php
 
+function add_magic_quotes($array) {
+	foreach ($array as $k => $v) {
+		if (is_array($v)) {
+			$array[$k] = add_magic_quotes($v);
+		} else {
+			$array[$k] = addslashes($v);
+		}
+	}
+	return $array;
+}
+
+if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
+	$_GET    = add_magic_quotes($_GET);
+	$_POST   = add_magic_quotes($_POST);
+	$_COOKIE = add_magic_quotes($_COOKIE);
+}
+
 if ( !$doing_trackback) {
     $doing_trackback = 1;
     require('wp-blog-header.php');
 }
 
-include_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/functions-post.php');
-
 function trackback_response($error = 0, $error_message = '') {
 	header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=' . get_option('blog_charset') );
 	if ($error) {
diff --git a/xmlrpc.php b/xmlrpc.php
index 45cd410c2d..93656e4abb 100644
--- a/xmlrpc.php
+++ b/xmlrpc.php
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = trim($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA);
 
 include('./wp-config.php');
 include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-IXR.php');
-include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/functions-post.php');
 
 // Turn off all warnings and errors.
 // error_reporting(0);