diff --git a/gridserver/src/GridHttp.cs b/gridserver/src/GridHttp.cs
index 510f490fec..833a8ac8e8 100644
--- a/gridserver/src/GridHttp.cs
+++ b/gridserver/src/GridHttp.cs
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ namespace OpenGridServices
 						SimInfoData["sendkey"]=TheSim.sendkey;
 						SimInfoData["recvkey"]=TheSim.recvkey;
 						SimInfoResp.Value=SimInfoData;
-						return(XmlRpcResponseSerializer.Singleton.Serialize(SimInfoResp));
+						return(Regex.Replace(XmlRpcResponseSerializer.Singleton.Serialize(SimInfoResp),"utf-16","utf-8"));
 					} else {
 						XmlRpcResponse SimErrorResp = new XmlRpcResponse();
                                                 Hashtable SimErrorData = new Hashtable();
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ namespace OpenGridServices
 			response.SendChunked=false;
 
 			System.IO.Stream body = request.InputStream;
-			System.Text.Encoding encoding = request.ContentEncoding;
+			System.Text.Encoding encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8; 
 			System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(body, encoding);
    
 	    		string requestBody = reader.ReadToEnd();
@@ -152,11 +152,9 @@ namespace OpenGridServices
 			}
 	
 	
-	                byte[] buffer = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(responseString);
+	                byte[] buffer = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(responseString);
         	        System.IO.Stream output = response.OutputStream;
     	        	response.SendChunked=false;
-			encoding = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode;
-        		response.ContentEncoding = encoding;
 			response.ContentLength64=buffer.Length;
 			output.Write(buffer,0,buffer.Length);
         	        output.Close();
diff --git a/userserver/src/UserHttp.cs b/userserver/src/UserHttp.cs
index eff63c9989..366854013d 100644
--- a/userserver/src/UserHttp.cs
+++ b/userserver/src/UserHttp.cs
@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ namespace OpenGridServices
 					LoginFlags["ever_logged_in"]="Y";
 
 					LoginGoodData["message"]=OpenUser_Main.userserver.DefaultStartupMsg;
-					LoginGoodData["session_id"]=TheUser.CurrentSessionID;
-					LoginGoodData["secure_sessionid"]=TheUser.CurrentSecureSessionID;
+					LoginGoodData["session_id"]=TheUser.CurrentSessionID.ToString();
+					LoginGoodData["secure_sessionid"]=TheUser.CurrentSecureSessionID.ToString();
 					LoginGoodData["agent_access"]="M";
 					LoginGoodData["start_location"]=requestData["start"];
 					LoginGoodData["global_textures"]=GlobalTextures;
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ namespace OpenGridServices
 			response.SendChunked=false;
 
 			System.IO.Stream body = request.InputStream;
-			System.Text.Encoding encoding = request.ContentEncoding;
+			System.Text.Encoding encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
 			System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(body, encoding);
    
 	    		string requestBody = reader.ReadToEnd();
@@ -191,11 +191,9 @@ namespace OpenGridServices
 			}
 	
 	
-	                byte[] buffer = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(responseString);
+	                byte[] buffer = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(responseString);
         	        System.IO.Stream output = response.OutputStream;
     	        	response.SendChunked=false;
-			encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
-        		response.ContentEncoding = encoding;
 			response.ContentLength64=buffer.Length;
 			output.Write(buffer,0,buffer.Length);
         	        output.Close();
diff --git a/userserver/src/UserProfiles.cs b/userserver/src/UserProfiles.cs
index 46d4add581..16ab11e9bd 100644
--- a/userserver/src/UserProfiles.cs
+++ b/userserver/src/UserProfiles.cs
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ namespace OpenGridServices
 			GridReqParams["authkey"]=SendKey;
 			ArrayList SendParams = new ArrayList();
 			SendParams.Add(GridReqParams);
-			XmlRpcRequest GridReq = new XmlRpcRequest("get_sim_info",GridReqParams);
+			XmlRpcRequest GridReq = new XmlRpcRequest("get_sim_info",SendParams);
 	
 			XmlRpcResponse GridResp = GridReq.Send(GridURL,3000);