diff --git a/ui (gen4)/features/base.js b/ui (gen4)/features/base.js
index 07e4c9bc..c5377dbb 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/features/base.js	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/features/base.js	
@@ -979,16 +979,6 @@ module.Base = core.ImageGridFeatures.Feature({
 					img.forEach(function(_, img){ img.base_path = base_path })
 				}
 
-				// extra stuff...
-				// ...this will restore stuff stored in the data but not 
-				// explicitly restored above...
-				// XXX do we need this???
-				Object.keys(json.data).forEach(function(k){
-					if(d[k] === undefined){
-						d[k] = json.data[k]
-					}
-				})
-
 				res.data = d
 				res.images = img
 			}],
diff --git a/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/data.js b/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/data.js
index 73d10861..3b3440c6 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/data.js	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/data.js	
@@ -2529,7 +2529,7 @@ var DataPrototype = {
 	//
 	// NOTE: this loads in-place, use .fromJSON(..) to create new data...
 	// XXX should this process defaults for unset values???
-	loadJSON: function(data){
+	loadJSON: function(data, clean){
 		var that = this
 		data = typeof(data) == typeof('str') ? JSON.parse(data) : data
 		data = formats.updateData(data)
@@ -2550,6 +2550,15 @@ var DataPrototype = {
 				that[s][k] = that.makeSparseImages(data[s][k])
 			}
 		})
+
+		// extra data...
+		!clean
+			&& Object.keys(data).forEach(function(k){
+				if(k != 'version' && that[k] === undefined){
+					that[k] = data[k]
+				}
+			})
+
 		return this
 	},
 
@@ -2559,7 +2568,7 @@ var DataPrototype = {
 	// 		the result...
 	dumpJSON: function(mode){
 		var res = {
-			varsion: module.DATA_VERSION,
+			version: module.DATA_VERSION,
 			base: this.base,
 			current: this.current,
 			order: this.order.slice(),
diff --git a/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/formats.js b/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/formats.js
index b121db1a..2e0f50e9 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/formats.js	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/formats.js	
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ function(data){
 
 	// we set the base to the first ribbon...
 	res.base = data.base == null ? res.ribbon_order[0] : res.base
+
 	return res
 }
 
@@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ module.updateData = function(data, clean){
 
 	!clean
 		&& Object.keys(data).forEach(function(k){
-			if(res[k] == null){
+			if(res[k] === undefined){
 				res[k] = data[k]
 			}
 		})