diff --git a/OpenSim/ApplicationPlugins/RemoteController/RemoteAdminPlugin.cs b/OpenSim/ApplicationPlugins/RemoteController/RemoteAdminPlugin.cs
index da3d3c2a14..c713e1963d 100644
--- a/OpenSim/ApplicationPlugins/RemoteController/RemoteAdminPlugin.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/ApplicationPlugins/RemoteController/RemoteAdminPlugin.cs
@@ -470,6 +470,9 @@ namespace OpenSim.ApplicationPlugins.RemoteController
         /// <item><term>estate_name</term>
         ///       <description>the name of the estate to join (or to create if it doesn't
         ///       already exist)</description></item>
+        /// <item><term>region_file</term>
+        ///       <description>The name of the file to persist the region specifications to.
+        /// If omitted, the region_file_template setting from OpenSim.ini will be used. (optional)</description></item>
         /// </list>
         ///
         /// XmlRpcCreateRegionMethod returns
@@ -583,7 +586,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.ApplicationPlugins.RemoteController
                     bool persist = Convert.ToBoolean((string) requestData["persist"]);
                     if (persist)
                     {
-                        // default place for region XML files is in the
+                        // default place for region configuration files is in the
                         // Regions directory of the config dir (aka /bin)
                         string regionConfigPath = Path.Combine(Util.configDir(), "Regions");
                         try
@@ -596,19 +599,36 @@ namespace OpenSim.ApplicationPlugins.RemoteController
                         {
                             // No INI setting recorded.
                         }
-                        string regionXmlPath = Path.Combine(regionConfigPath,
+                        
+                        string regionIniPath;
+                        
+                        if (requestData.Contains("region_file"))
+                        {
+                            // Make sure that the file to be created is in a subdirectory of the region storage directory.
+                            string requestedFilePath = Path.Combine(regionConfigPath, (string) requestData["region_file"]);
+                            string requestedDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(Path.GetFullPath(requestedFilePath));
+                            if (requestedDirectory.StartsWith(Path.GetFullPath(regionConfigPath)))
+                                regionIniPath = requestedFilePath;
+                            else
+                                throw new Exception("Invalid location for region file.");
+                        }
+                        else
+                        {
+                            regionIniPath = Path.Combine(regionConfigPath,
                                                             String.Format(
                                                                 m_config.GetString("region_file_template",
-                                                                                   "{0}x{1}-{2}.xml"),
+                                                                                   "{0}x{1}-{2}.ini"),
                                                                 region.RegionLocX.ToString(),
                                                                 region.RegionLocY.ToString(),
                                                                 regionID.ToString(),
                                                                 region.InternalEndPoint.Port.ToString(),
                                                                 region.RegionName.Replace(" ", "_").Replace(":", "_").
                                                                     Replace("/", "_")));
+                        }
+                        
                         m_log.DebugFormat("[RADMIN] CreateRegion: persisting region {0} to {1}",
-                                          region.RegionID, regionXmlPath);
-                        region.SaveRegionToFile("dynamic region", regionXmlPath);
+                                          region.RegionID, regionIniPath);
+                        region.SaveRegionToFile("dynamic region", regionIniPath);
                     }
                     else
                     {
diff --git a/OpenSim/Framework/RegionInfo.cs b/OpenSim/Framework/RegionInfo.cs
index ea1a5949a6..12c58c3b76 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Framework/RegionInfo.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Framework/RegionInfo.cs
@@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework
             IConfig config = source.Configs[RegionName];
 
             if (config != null)
-                source.Configs.Remove(RegionName);
+                source.Configs.Remove(config);
 
             config = source.AddConfig(RegionName);
 
@@ -864,10 +864,15 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework
 
                 return;
             }
-            configMember = new ConfigurationMember(filename, description, loadConfigurationOptionsFromMe,
-                                                   ignoreIncomingConfiguration, false);
-            configMember.performConfigurationRetrieve();
-            RegionFile = filename;
+            else if (filename.ToLower().EndsWith(".xml"))
+            {
+                configMember = new ConfigurationMember(filename, description, loadConfigurationOptionsFromMe,
+                                                       ignoreIncomingConfiguration, false);
+                configMember.performConfigurationRetrieve();
+                RegionFile = filename;
+            }
+            else
+                throw new Exception("Invalid file type for region persistence.");
         }
 
         public void loadConfigurationOptionsFromMe()
diff --git a/OpenSim/Services/InventoryService/HGInventoryService.cs b/OpenSim/Services/InventoryService/HGInventoryService.cs
index 6e6b019f75..d62c0089a2 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Services/InventoryService/HGInventoryService.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Services/InventoryService/HGInventoryService.cs
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Services.InventoryService
                 LogManager.GetLogger(
                 MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
 
-        protected IXInventoryData m_Database;
+        protected new IXInventoryData m_Database;
 
         public HGInventoryService(IConfigSource config)
             : base(config)
diff --git a/bin/OpenSim.ini.example b/bin/OpenSim.ini.example
index 71c7e550d0..08726ea8a0 100644
--- a/bin/OpenSim.ini.example
+++ b/bin/OpenSim.ini.example
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@
     ;     {2} - region UUID
     ;     {3} - region port
     ;     {4} - region name with " ", ":", "/" mapped to  "_"
-    region_file_template = "{0}x{1}-{2}.xml"
+    region_file_template = "{0}x{1}-{2}.ini"
 
     ; we can limit the number of regions that XmlRpcCreateRegion will
     ; allow by setting this to a positive, non-0 number: as long as the