diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index 444b3e589..93ebfc67a 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ require('wp-blog-header.php');
 <head>
 	<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>
 	
-	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $blog_charset; ?>" />
+	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo get_settings('blog_charset'); ?>" />
 	<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php echo $wp_version; ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->
 
 	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
diff --git a/wp-admin/admin-header.php b/wp-admin/admin-header.php
index d860414fc..7523854cc 100644
--- a/wp-admin/admin-header.php
+++ b/wp-admin/admin-header.php
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ if ($standalone == 0) {
 <title>WordPress &rsaquo; <?php bloginfo('name') ?> &rsaquo; <?php echo $title; ?></title>
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-admin.css" type="text/css" />
 <link rel="shortcut icon" href="../wp-images/wp-favicon.png" />
-<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $blog_charset ?>" />
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo get_settings('blog_charset'); ?>" />
 <?php
 if ($redirect==1) {
 ?>
diff --git a/wp-admin/bookmarklet.php b/wp-admin/bookmarklet.php
index 86571073f..8b7120362 100644
--- a/wp-admin/bookmarklet.php
+++ b/wp-admin/bookmarklet.php
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ window.close()
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 <title>WordPress > Bookmarklet</title>
-<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $blog_charset ?>" />
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo get_settings('blog_charset'); ?>" />
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-admin.css" type="text/css" />
 <link rel="shortcut icon" href="../wp-images/wp-favicon.png" />
 <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
diff --git a/wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php b/wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php
index 0ed3be742..f90390375 100644
--- a/wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php
+++ b/wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <div class="wrap">
 <?php
 
-$allowed_users = explode(" ", trim($fileupload_allowedusers));
+$allowed_users = explode(" ", trim(get_settings('fileupload_allowedusers')));
 
 $submitbutton_text = 'Save';
 $toprow_title = 'Editing Post #' . $postdata['ID'];
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ $form_extra = "' />\n<input type='hidden' name='post_ID' value='$post->ID";
 $colspan = 2;
 $form_pingback = '<input type="hidden" name="post_pingback" value="0" />';
 $form_prevstatus = '<input type="hidden" name="prev_status" value="'.$post_status.'" />';
-if ($use_trackback) {
+if (get_settings('use_trackback')) {
 	$form_trackback = '<p><label for="trackback"><a href="http://wordpress.org/docs/reference/post/#trackback" title="Help on trackbacks"><strong>TrackBack</strong> an <acronym title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</acronym></a></label>
 	 (Separate multiple <acronym title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</acronym>s with spaces.)<br />
 	<input type="text" name="trackback_url" style="width: 415px" id="trackback" tabindex="7" value="'. str_replace("\n", ' ', $to_ping) .'" /></p>';
diff --git a/wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php b/wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php
index af3d8fbb0..fc60a38a4 100644
--- a/wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php
+++ b/wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 
-$allowed_users = explode(" ", trim($fileupload_allowedusers));
+$allowed_users = explode(" ", trim(get_settings('fileupload_allowedusers')));
 
 $submitbutton_text = 'Edit this!';
 $toprow_title = 'Editing Comment # '.$commentdata['comment_ID'];
diff --git a/wp-admin/edit-form.php b/wp-admin/edit-form.php
index 726085ddf..0fd23d210 100644
--- a/wp-admin/edit-form.php
+++ b/wp-admin/edit-form.php
@@ -2,20 +2,20 @@
 <div class="wrap">
 <?php
 
-$allowed_users = explode(" ", trim($fileupload_allowedusers));
+$allowed_users = explode(" ", trim(get_settings('fileupload_allowedusers')));
 
 $submitbutton_text = 'Blog this!';
 $toprow_title = 'New Post';
 $form_action = 'post';
 $form_extra = '';
-if ($use_pingback) {
+if (get_settings('use_pingback')) {
 	$form_pingback = '<input type="checkbox" class="checkbox" name="post_pingback" value="1" ';
 	if ($post_pingback) $form_pingback .= 'checked="checked" ';
 	$form_pingback .= 'tabindex="7" id="pingback" /> <label for="pingback"><strong>PingBack</strong> the <acronym title="Uniform Resource Locators">URL</acronym>s in this post</label> <a href="http://wordpress.org/docs/reference/post/#pingback" title="Help on Pingbacks">?</a><br />';
 } else {
 	$form_pingback = '';
 }
-if ($use_trackback) {
+if (get_settings('use_trackback')) {
 	$form_trackback = '<p><label for="trackback"><a href="http://wordpress.org/docs/reference/post/#trackback" title="Help on trackbacks"><strong>TrackBack</strong> an <acronym title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</acronym></a>:</label> (Separate multiple <acronym title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</acronym>s with spaces.)<br />
 	<input type="text" name="trackback_url" style="width: 360px" id="trackback" tabindex="7" /></p>';
 	if ('' != $pinged) {
diff --git a/wp-admin/install.php b/wp-admin/install.php
index 26884e129..15b8474a6 100644
--- a/wp-admin/install.php
+++ b/wp-admin/install.php
@@ -419,7 +419,6 @@ $option_data = array(
 "INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_id, option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level, option_width) VALUES(25,'rss_use_excerpt', 2, '1', 'use the excerpt field for rss feed.', 8, 20)",
 "INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_id, option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level, option_width) VALUES(26,'use_weblogsping', 2, '0', 'set this to true if you want your site to be listed on http://weblogs.com when you add a new post', 8, 20)",
 "INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_id, option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level, option_width) VALUES(27,'use_blodotgsping', 2, '0', 'set this to true if you want your site to be listed on http://blo.gs when you add a new post', 8, 20)",
-"INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_id, option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level, option_width) VALUES(28,'blodotgsping_url', 3, 'http://example.com', 'You shouldn\'t need to change this.', 8, 30)",
 "INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_id, option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level, option_width) VALUES(29,'use_trackback', 2, '1', 'set this to 0 or 1, whether you want to allow your posts to be trackback\'able or not note: setting it to zero would also disable sending trackbacks', 8, 20)",
 "INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_id, option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level, option_width) VALUES(30,'use_pingback', 2, '1', 'set this to 0 or 1, whether you want to allow your posts to be pingback\'able or not note: setting it to zero would also disable sending pingbacks', 8, 20)",
 //file upload
@@ -700,8 +699,6 @@ $url = $_POST['url'];
 if (isset($url)) {
     $query= "UPDATE $tableoptions set option_value='$url' where option_id=1"; //siteurl
     $q = $wpdb->query($query);
-    $query= "UPDATE $tableoptions set option_value='$url' where option_id=28"; //blodotgsping_url
-    $q = $wpdb->query($query);
     $query= "UPDATE $tableoptions set option_value='$url/wp-images/smilies' where option_id=17"; //smilies_directory
     $q = $wpdb->query($query);
 }
diff --git a/wp-admin/link-import.php b/wp-admin/link-import.php
index 6f495dda8..a42b78109 100644
--- a/wp-admin/link-import.php
+++ b/wp-admin/link-import.php
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ switch ($step) {
                 }
                 else // try to get the upload file.
 				{
-					$uploaddir = $fileupload_realpath;
+					$uploaddir = get_settings('fileupload_realpath');
 					$uploadfile = $uploaddir.'/'.$_FILES['userfile']['name'];
 
 					if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile))
diff --git a/wp-admin/menu.php b/wp-admin/menu.php
index 65959cf86..f988efbcc 100644
--- a/wp-admin/menu.php
+++ b/wp-admin/menu.php
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ foreach ($menu as $item) {
 		$self = str_replace('/wp-admin/', '', $PHP_SELF);
 		if ((substr($self, -20) == substr($item[1], -20) && empty($parent_file)) || ($parent_file && ($item[1] == $parent_file))) $class = ' class="current"';
 		if ($user_level >= $item[0]) {
-			if (('upload.php' == $item[1] && $use_fileupload && ($user_level >= $fileupload_minlevel)
-         && (in_array($user_login, explode(' ', $allowed_users)) || (trim($fileupload_allowedusers)==""))) || 'upload.php' != $item[1])
+			if (('upload.php' == $item[1] && get_settings('use_fileupload') && ($user_level >= get_settings('fileupload_minlevel'))
+         && (in_array($user_login, explode(' ', $allowed_users)) || (trim(get_settings('fileupload_allowedusers'))==''))) || 'upload.php' != $item[1])
 				echo "\n\t<li><a href='{$item[1]}'$class>{$item[2]}</a></li>";
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/wp-admin/post.php b/wp-admin/post.php
index 5b835e488..a4c243a89 100644
--- a/wp-admin/post.php
+++ b/wp-admin/post.php
@@ -707,17 +707,17 @@ switch($action) {
 <p>
 
 <?php
-$bookmarklet_height= ($use_trackback) ? 460 : 420;
+$bookmarklet_height= (get_settings('use_trackback')) ? 460 : 420;
 
 if ($is_NS4 || $is_gecko) {
 ?>
     <a href="javascript:if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0){Q=getSelection();}else{Q=document.selection?document.selection.createRange().text:document.getSelection();}void(window.open('<?php echo get_settings('siteurl') ?>/wp-admin/bookmarklet.php?text='+escape(Q)+'&popupurl='+escape(location.href)+'&popuptitle='+escape(document.title),'WordPress bookmarklet','scrollbars=yes,width=600,height=460,left=100,top=150,status=yes'));">Press It 
-    - <?php echo $blogname ?></a> 
+    - <?php echo get_settings('blogname'); ?></a> 
     <?php
 } else if ($is_winIE) {
 ?>
     <a href="javascript:Q='';if(top.frames.length==0)Q=document.selection.createRange().text;void(btw=window.open('<?php echo get_settings('siteurl') ?>/wp-admin/bookmarklet.php?text='+escape(Q)+'<?php echo $bookmarklet_tbpb ?>&popupurl='+escape(location.href)+'&popuptitle='+escape(document.title),'bookmarklet','scrollbars=yes,width=600,height=<?php echo $bookmarklet_height ?>,left=100,top=150,status=yes'));btw.focus();">Press it 
-    - <?php echo $blogname ?></a> 
+    - <?php echo get_settings('blogname'); ?></a> 
     <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
 <!--
 function oneclickbookmarklet(blah) {
@@ -733,12 +733,12 @@ function oneclickbookmarklet(blah) {
 } else if ($is_opera) {
 ?>
     <a href="javascript:void(window.open('<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/bookmarklet.php?popupurl='+escape(location.href)+'&popuptitle='+escape(document.title)+'<?php echo $bookmarklet_tbpb ?>','bookmarklet','scrollbars=yes,width=600,height=<?php echo $bookmarklet_height ?>,left=100,top=150,status=yes'));">Press it 
-    - <?php echo $blogname ?></a> 
+    - <?php echo get_settings('blogname'); ?></a> 
     <?php
 } else if ($is_macIE) {
 ?>
     <a href="javascript:Q='';if(top.frames.length==0);void(btw=window.open('<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/bookmarklet.php?text='+escape(document.getSelection())+'&popupurl='+escape(location.href)+'&popuptitle='+escape(document.title)+'<?php echo $bookmarklet_tbpb ?>','bookmarklet','scrollbars=yes,width=600,height=<?php echo $bookmarklet_height ?>,left=100,top=150,status=yes'));btw.focus();">Press it 
-    - <?php echo $blogname ?></a> 
+    - <?php echo get_settings('blogname'); ?></a> 
     <?php
 }
 ?>
diff --git a/wp-admin/profile.php b/wp-admin/profile.php
index e6f703142..881a6f80d 100644
--- a/wp-admin/profile.php
+++ b/wp-admin/profile.php
@@ -178,9 +178,9 @@ break;
 case 'IErightclick':
 
 
-	$bookmarklet_tbpb  = ($use_trackback) ? '&trackback=1' : '';
-	$bookmarklet_tbpb .= ($use_pingback)  ? '&pingback=1'  : '';
-	$bookmarklet_height= ($use_trackback) ? 590 : 550;
+	$bookmarklet_tbpb  = (get_settings('use_trackback')) ? '&trackback=1' : '';
+	$bookmarklet_tbpb .= (get_settings('use_pingback'))  ? '&pingback=1'  : '';
+	$bookmarklet_height= (get_settings('use_trackback')) ? 590 : 550;
 
 	?>
 
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ case 'IErightclick':
 
 	<p>To have a one-click bookmarklet, just copy and paste this<br />into a new text file:</p>
 	<?php
-	$regedit = "REGEDIT4\r\n[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\Post To &WP : ".$blogname."]\r\n@=\"javascript:doc=external.menuArguments.document;Q=doc.selection.createRange().text;void(btw=window.open('". get_settings('siteurl') ."/wp-admin/bookmarklet.php?text='+escape(Q)+'".$bookmarklet_tbpb."&popupurl='+escape(doc.location.href)+'&popuptitle='+escape(doc.title),'bookmarklet','scrollbars=no,width=480,height=".$bookmarklet_height.",left=100,top=150,status=yes'));btw.focus();\"\r\n\"contexts\"=hex:31\"";
+	$regedit = "REGEDIT4\r\n[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\Post To &WP : ". get_settings('blogname') ."]\r\n@=\"javascript:doc=external.menuArguments.document;Q=doc.selection.createRange().text;void(btw=window.open('". get_settings('siteurl') ."/wp-admin/bookmarklet.php?text='+escape(Q)+'".$bookmarklet_tbpb."&popupurl='+escape(doc.location.href)+'&popuptitle='+escape(doc.title),'bookmarklet','scrollbars=no,width=480,height=".$bookmarklet_height.",left=100,top=150,status=yes'));btw.focus();\"\r\n\"contexts\"=hex:31\"";
 	?>
 	<pre style="margin: 20px; background-color: #cccccc; border: 1px dashed #333333; padding: 5px; font-size: 12px;"><?php echo $regedit; ?></pre>
 	<p>Save it as wordpress.reg, and double-click on this file in an Explorer<br />
@@ -216,9 +216,9 @@ default:
 	include_once('admin-header.php');
 	$profiledata=get_userdata($user_ID);
 
-	$bookmarklet_tbpb  = ($use_trackback) ? '&trackback=1' : '';
-	$bookmarklet_tbpb .= ($use_pingback)  ? '&pingback=1'  : '';
-	$bookmarklet_height= ($use_trackback) ? 480 : 440;
+	$bookmarklet_tbpb  = (get_settings('use_trackback')) ? '&trackback=1' : '';
+	$bookmarklet_tbpb .= (get_settings('use_pingback'))  ? '&pingback=1'  : '';
+	$bookmarklet_height= (get_settings('use_trackback')) ? 480 : 440;
 
 	?>
 <?php if ($updated) { ?>
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ default:
 function addPanel()
         {
           if ((typeof window.sidebar == "object") && (typeof window.sidebar.addPanel == "function"))
-            window.sidebar.addPanel("WordPress Post: <?php echo $blogname ?>","<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/sidebar.php","");
+            window.sidebar.addPanel("WordPress Post: <?php echo get_settings('blogname'); ?>","<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/sidebar.php","");
           else
             alert('No Sidebar found!  You must use Mozilla 0.9.4 or later!');
         }
diff --git a/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php b/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php
index 54e8fee31..127efbea8 100644
--- a/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php
+++ b/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php
@@ -196,7 +196,6 @@ $guessurl = preg_replace('|/wp-admin/.*|i', '', 'http://' . $HTTP_HOST . $REQUES
 		"25" => "INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_id, option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level, option_width) VALUES (25,'rss_use_excerpt', 2, '1', 'use the excerpt field for rss feed.', 8, 20)",
 		"26" => "INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_id, option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level, option_width) VALUES (26,'use_weblogsping', 2, '0', 'set this to true if you want your site to be listed on http://weblogs.com when you add a new post', 8, 20)",
 		"27" => "INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_id, option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level, option_width) VALUES (27,'use_blodotgsping', 2, '0', 'set this to true if you want your site to be listed on http://blo.gs when you add a new post', 8, 20)",
-		"28" => "INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_id, option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level, option_width) VALUES (28,'blodotgsping_url', 3, 'http://example.com', 'You shouldn\'t need to change this.', 8, 30)",
 		"29" => "INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_id, option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level, option_width) VALUES (29,'use_trackback', 2, '1', 'set this to false or true, whether you want to allow your posts to be trackback\'able or not note: setting it to false would also disable sending trackbacks', 8, 20)",
 		"30" => "INSERT INTO $tableoptions (option_id, option_name, option_type, option_value, option_description, option_admin_level, option_width) VALUES (30,'use_pingback', 2, '1', 'set this to false or true, whether you want to allow your posts to be pingback\'able or not note: setting it to false would also disable sending pingbacks', 8, 20)",
 		//file upload
diff --git a/wp-admin/upload.php b/wp-admin/upload.php
index 68b9d1579..39529f67e 100644
--- a/wp-admin/upload.php
+++ b/wp-admin/upload.php
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ require_once('admin-header.php');
 if ($user_level == 0) //Checks to see if user has logged in
 	die ("Cheatin' uh ?");
 
-if (!$use_fileupload) //Checks if file upload is enabled in the config
+if (!get_settings('use_fileupload')) //Checks if file upload is enabled in the config
 	die ("The admin disabled this function");
 
-$allowed_types = explode(' ', trim($fileupload_allowedtypes));
+$allowed_types = explode(' ', trim(get_settings('fileupload_allowedtypes')));
 
 if ($HTTP_POST_VARS['submit']) {
 	$action = 'upload';
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ if ($HTTP_POST_VARS['submit']) {
 	$action = '';
 }
 
-if (!is_writable($fileupload_realpath))
+if (!is_writable(get_settings('fileupload_realpath')))
 	$action = 'not-writable';
 ?>
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ if (!is_writable($fileupload_realpath))
 switch ($action) {
 case 'not-writable':
 ?>
-<p>It doesn't look like you can use the file upload feature at this time because the directory you have specified (<code><?php echo $fileupload_realpath; ?></code>) doesn't appear to be writable by WordPress. Check the permissions on the directory and for typos.</p>
+<p>It doesn't look like you can use the file upload feature at this time because the directory you have specified (<code><?php echo $get_settings('fileupload_realpath'); ?></code>) doesn't appear to be writable by WordPress. Check the permissions on the directory and for typos.</p>
 
 <?php
 break;
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ case '':
     <p>
       <label for="img1">File:</label>
       <br />
-	<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="<?php echo $fileupload_maxk * 1024 ?>" />
+	<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="<?php echo get_settings('fileupload_maxk') * 1024 ?>" />
     <input type="file" name="img1" id="img1" size="35" class="uploadform" /></p>
     <p>
       <label for="imgdesc">Description:</label><br />
@@ -96,10 +96,10 @@ case 'upload':
     }
 
     if (strlen($imgalt)) {
-        $pathtofile = $fileupload_realpath."/".$imgalt;
+        $pathtofile = get_settings('fileupload_realpath')."/".$imgalt;
         $img1 = $HTTP_POST_VARS['img1'];
     } else {
-        $pathtofile = $fileupload_realpath."/".$img1_name;
+        $pathtofile = get_settings('fileupload_realpath')."/".$img1_name;
         $img1 = $HTTP_POST_FILES['img1']['tmp_name'];
     }
 
@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ case 'upload':
     }
 
     if (file_exists($pathtofile) && !strlen($imgalt)) {
-        $i = explode(" ",$fileupload_allowedtypes);
-        $i = implode(", ",array_slice($i, 1, count($i)-2));
+        $i = explode(' ', get_settings('fileupload_allowedtypes'));
+        $i = implode(', ',array_slice($i, 1, count($i)-2));
         $moved = move_uploaded_file($img1, $pathtofile2);
         // if move_uploaded_file() fails, try copy()
         if (!$moved) {
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ case 'upload':
     <p> filename '<?php echo $img1; ?>' moved to '<?php echo "$pathtofile2 - $img2_name"; ?>'</p>
     <p>Confirm or rename:</p>
     <form action="upload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
-    <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="<?php echo $fileupload_maxk*1024 ?>" />
+    <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="<?php echo  get_settings('fileupload_maxk') *1024 ?>" />
     <input type="hidden" name="img1_type" value="<?php echo $img1_type;?>" />
     <input type="hidden" name="img1_name" value="<?php echo $img2_name;?>" />
     <input type="hidden" name="img1_size" value="<?php echo $img1_size;?>" />
@@ -197,9 +197,9 @@ die();
 
 
 if ( ereg('image/',$img1_type)) {
-    $piece_of_code = "&lt;img src=&quot;$fileupload_url/$img1_name&quot; alt=&quot;$imgdesc&quot; /&gt;";
+    $piece_of_code = "&lt;img src=&quot;". get_settings('fileupload_url') ."/$img1_name&quot; alt=&quot;$imgdesc&quot; /&gt;";
 } else {
-    $piece_of_code = "&lt;a href=&quot;$fileupload_url/$img1_name&quot; title=&quot;$imgdesc&quot; /&gt;$imgdesc&lt;/a&gt;";
+    $piece_of_code = "&lt;a href=&quot;". get_settings('fileupload_url') . "/$img1_name&quot; title=&quot;$imgdesc&quot; /&gt;$imgdesc&lt;/a&gt;";
 };
 
 ?>
diff --git a/wp-admin/users.php b/wp-admin/users.php
index 7b018017c..4c42dcf6d 100644
--- a/wp-admin/users.php
+++ b/wp-admin/users.php
@@ -86,10 +86,10 @@ case 'adduser':
 		$stars .= '*';
 	}
 
-	$message  = "New user registration on your blog $blogname:\r\n\r\n";
+	$message  = 'New user registration on your blog ' . get_settings('blogname') . ":\r\n\r\n";
 	$message .= "Login: $user_login\r\n\r\nE-mail: $user_email";
 
-	@mail($admin_email, "[$blogname] New User Registration", $message);
+	@mail($admin_email, '[' . get_settings('blogname') . '] New User Registration', $message);
 	header('Location: users.php');
 break;
 
diff --git a/wp-atom.php b/wp-atom.php
index 795acc94c..8e5cb4eee 100644
--- a/wp-atom.php
+++ b/wp-atom.php
@@ -7,15 +7,12 @@ if (! $feed) {
 
 header('Content-type: application/atom+xml', true);
 
-if (!isset($rss_language)) { $rss_language = 'en'; }
-if (!isset($rss_encoded_html)) { $rss_encoded_html = 0; }
-if (!isset($rss_excerpt_length) || ($rss_encoded_html == 1)) { $rss_excerpt_length = 0; }
 ?>
 <?php echo '<?xml version="1.0"?'.'>'; ?>
 <feed version="0.3"
   xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"
   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
-  xml:lang="<?php echo $rss_language ?>">
+  xml:lang="<?php echo get_settings('rss_language'); ?>">
 	<title><?php bloginfo_rss('name') ?></title>
 	<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="<?php bloginfo_rss('url') ?>" />
 	<tagline><?php bloginfo_rss("description") ?></tagline>
@@ -34,17 +31,17 @@ if (!isset($rss_excerpt_length) || ($rss_encoded_html == 1)) { $rss_excerpt_leng
 		<modified><?php the_time('Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z'); ?></modified>
 		<issued><?php the_time('Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z'); ?></issued>
 		<?php the_category_rss('rdf') ?>
-<?php $more = 1; if ($rss_use_excerpt) {
+<?php $more = 1; if (get_settings('rss_use_excerpt')) {
 ?>
-		<summary type="text/html" mode="escaped"><?php the_excerpt_rss($rss_excerpt_length, 2) ?></summary>
+		<summary type="text/html" mode="escaped"><?php the_excerpt_rss(get_settings('rss_excerpt_length'), 2) ?></summary>
 <?php
 } else { // use content
 ?>
-		<summary type="text/html"><?php the_content_rss('', 0, '', $rss_excerpt_length, 2) ?></summary>
+		<summary type="text/html"><?php the_content_rss('', 0, '', get_settings('rss_excerpt_length'), 2) ?></summary>
 <?php
 } // end else use content
 ?>
 		<content type="text/html" mode="escaped" xml:base="<?php permalink_single_rss() ?>"><![CDATA[<?php the_content('', 0, '') ?>]]></content>
 	</entry>
-	<?php $items_count++; if (($items_count == $posts_per_rss) && empty($m)) { break; } } } ?>
+	<?php $items_count++; if (($items_count == get_settings('posts_per_rss')) && empty($m)) { break; } } } ?>
 </feed>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/wp-comments-popup.php b/wp-comments-popup.php
index 1300e5a38..9f8362eb0 100644
--- a/wp-comments-popup.php
+++ b/wp-comments-popup.php
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ foreach ($posts as $post) { start_wp();
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
-	<title><?php echo $blogname ?> - Comments on "<?php the_title() ?>"</title>
+	<title><?php echo get_settings('blogname'); ?> - Comments on "<?php the_title() ?>"</title>
 
-	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $blog_charset; ?>" />
+	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo get_settings('blog_charset'); ?>" />
 	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
 		@import url( wp-layout.css );
 		body { margin: 3px; }
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ foreach ($posts as $post) { start_wp();
 </head>
 <body id="commentspopup">
 
-<h1 id="header"><a href="" title="<?php echo $blogname ?>"><?php echo $blogname ?></a></h1>
+<h1 id="header"><a href="" title="<?php echo get_settings('blogname'); ?>"><?php echo get_settings('blogname'); ?></a></h1>
 
 <h2 id="comments">Comments</h2>
 
diff --git a/wp-comments-post.php b/wp-comments-post.php
index 5c7372d25..5f0b7885b 100644
--- a/wp-comments-post.php
+++ b/wp-comments-post.php
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ $commentstatus = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT comment_status FROM $tableposts WHERE ID
 if ('closed' == $commentstatus)
 	die('Sorry, comments are closed for this item.');
 
-if ($require_name_email && ($email == '' || $author == '')) { //original fix by Dodo, and then Drinyth
+if (get_settings('require_name_email') && ($email == '' || $author == '')) { //original fix by Dodo, and then Drinyth
 	die('Error: please fill the required fields (name, email).');
 }
 if ($comment == 'comment' || $comment == '') {
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ if ($ok) { // if there was no comment from this IP in the last 10 seconds
 	    wp_notify_moderator($comment_ID);
 	}
 	
-	if (($comments_notify) && ($approved)) {
+	if ((get_settings('comments_notify')) && ($approved)) {
 	    wp_notify_postauthor($comment_ID, 'comment');
 	}
 
diff --git a/wp-commentsrss2.php b/wp-commentsrss2.php
index 82f18041d..8d57c110f 100644
--- a/wp-commentsrss2.php
+++ b/wp-commentsrss2.php
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ if (! $feed) {
 
 header('Content-type: text/xml');
 
-if (!isset($rss_language)) { $rss_language = 'en'; }
 echo '<?xml version="1.0"?'.'>'; 
 ?>
 <!-- generator="wordpress/<?php echo $wp_version ?>" -->
@@ -21,7 +20,7 @@ foreach ($posts as $post) { start_wp();
 	<title><?php if (isset($_REQUEST["p"]) || isset($_REQUEST["name"])) { echo "Comments on: "; the_title_rss(); } else { bloginfo_rss("name"); echo " Comments"; } ?></title>
 	<link><?php (isset($_REQUEST["p"]) || isset($_REQUEST["name"])) ? permalink_single_rss() : bloginfo_rss("url") ?></link>
 	<description><?php bloginfo_rss("description") ?></description>
-	<language><?php echo $rss_language ?></language>
+	<language><?php echo get_settings('rss_language'); ?></language>
 	<pubDate><?php echo gmdate('r'); ?></pubDate>
 	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=<?php echo $wp_version ?></generator>
 
@@ -33,14 +32,14 @@ foreach ($posts as $post) { start_wp();
 			LEFT JOIN $tableposts ON comment_post_id = id WHERE comment_post_ID = '$id' 
 			AND $tablecomments.comment_approved = '1' AND $tableposts.post_status = 'publish' 
 			AND post_date < '".date("Y-m-d H:i:s")."' 
-			ORDER BY comment_date LIMIT $posts_per_rss");
+			ORDER BY comment_date LIMIT " . get_settings('posts_per_rss') );
 		} else { // if no post id passed in, we'll just ue the last 10 comments.
 			$comments = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT comment_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email, 
 			comment_author_url, comment_date, comment_content, comment_post_ID, 
 			$tableposts.ID, $tableposts.post_password FROM $tablecomments 
 			LEFT JOIN $tableposts ON comment_post_id = id WHERE $tableposts.post_status = 'publish' 
 			AND $tablecomments.comment_approved = '1' AND post_date < '".date("Y-m-d H:i:s")."'  
-			ORDER BY comment_date DESC LIMIT $posts_per_rss");
+			ORDER BY comment_date DESC LIMIT " . get_settings('posts_per_rss') );
 		}
 	// this line is WordPress' motor, do not delete it.
 		if ($comments) {
diff --git a/wp-includes/functions-formatting.php b/wp-includes/functions-formatting.php
index 34423d752..2baa2bad4 100644
--- a/wp-includes/functions-formatting.php
+++ b/wp-includes/functions-formatting.php
@@ -81,13 +81,13 @@ function sanitize_title($title) {
 }
 
 function convert_chars($content, $flag='obsolete attribute left there for backwards compatibility') { // html/unicode entities output
-	global $use_htmltrans, $wp_htmltrans, $wp_htmltranswinuni;
+	global $wp_htmltrans, $wp_htmltranswinuni;
 
 	// removes metadata tags
 	$content = preg_replace('/<title>(.+?)<\/title>/','',$content);
 	$content = preg_replace('/<category>(.+?)<\/category>/','',$content);
 	
-	if ($use_htmltrans) {
+	if (get_settings('use_htmltrans')) {
 		// converts lone & characters into &#38; (a.k.a. &amp;)
 		$content = preg_replace('/&[^#](?![a-z]*;)/ie', '"&#38;".substr("\0",1)', $content);
 		// converts HTML-entities to their display values in order to convert them again later
@@ -124,9 +124,8 @@ function convert_chars($content, $flag='obsolete attribute left there for backwa
              1.0  First Version
 */
 function balanceTags($text, $is_comment = 0) {
-	global $use_balanceTags;
 	
-	if ($use_balanceTags == 0) {
+	if (get_settings('use_balanceTags') == 0) {
 		return $text;
 	}
 
diff --git a/wp-includes/functions.php b/wp-includes/functions.php
index ffc83a7ac..92596b8a7 100644
--- a/wp-includes/functions.php
+++ b/wp-includes/functions.php
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ function get_weekstartend($mysqlstring, $start_of_week) {
 	$day = mktime(0,0,0, $md, $mm, $my);
 	$weekday = date('w',$day);
 	$i = 86400;
-	while ($weekday > $start_of_week) {
+	while ($weekday > get_settings('start_of_week')) {
 		$weekday = date('w',$day);
 		$day = $day - 86400;
 		$i = 0;
@@ -565,10 +565,9 @@ function timer_stop($display=0,$precision=3) { //if called like timer_stop(1), w
 // pings Weblogs.com
 function pingWeblogs($blog_ID = 1) {
 	// original function by Dries Buytaert for Drupal
-	global $use_weblogsping, $blogname;
-	if ((!(($blogname=="my weblog") && (get_settings('siteurl')=="http://example.com") && (get_settings('blogfilename') == "wp.php"))) && (!preg_match("/localhost\//", get_settings('siteurl'))) && ($use_weblogsping)) {
+	if ((!((get_settings('blogname')=="my weblog") && (get_settings('siteurl')=="http://example.com") && (get_settings('blogfilename') == "wp.php"))) && (!preg_match("/localhost\//", get_settings('siteurl'))) && (get_settings('use_weblogsping'))) {
 		$client = new xmlrpc_client("/RPC2", "rpc.weblogs.com", 80);
-		$message = new xmlrpcmsg("weblogUpdates.ping", array(new xmlrpcval($blogname), 
+		$message = new xmlrpcmsg("weblogUpdates.ping", array(new xmlrpcval(get_settings('blogname')), 
 		new xmlrpcval(get_settings('siteurl') . '/' . get_settings('blogfilename')
 		)));
 		$result = $client->send($message);
@@ -583,10 +582,10 @@ function pingWeblogs($blog_ID = 1) {
 
 // pings Weblogs.com/rssUpdates
 function pingWeblogsRss($blog_ID = 1, $rss_url) {
-	global $use_weblogsrssping, $blogname, $rss_url;
-	if ($blogname != 'my weblog' && $rss_url != 'http://example.com/b2rdf.php' && $use_weblogsrssping) {
+	global $use_weblogsrssping, $rss_url;
+	if (get_settings('blogname') != 'my weblog' && $rss_url != 'http://example.com/b2rdf.php' && $use_weblogsrssping) {
 		$client = new xmlrpc_client('/RPC2', 'rssrpc.weblogs.com', 80);
-		$message = new xmlrpcmsg('rssUpdate', array(new xmlrpcval($blogname), new xmlrpcval($rss_url)));
+		$message = new xmlrpcmsg('rssUpdate', array(new xmlrpcval(get_settings('blogname')), new xmlrpcval($rss_url)));
 		$result = $client->send($message);
 		if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) {
 			return false;
@@ -599,8 +598,8 @@ function pingWeblogsRss($blog_ID = 1, $rss_url) {
 
 // pings Caf�Log.com
 function pingCafelog($cafelogID,$title='',$p='') {
-	global $use_cafelogping, $blogname;
-	if ((!(($blogname=="my weblog") && (get_settings('siteurl') == "http://example.com") && (get_settings('blogfilename')=="wp.php"))) && (!preg_match("/localhost\//", get_settings('siteurl'))) && ($use_cafelogping) && ($cafelogID != '')) {
+	global $use_cafelogping;
+	if ((!((get_settings('blogname')=="my weblog") && (get_settings('siteurl') == "http://example.com") && (get_settings('blogfilename')=="wp.php"))) && (!preg_match("/localhost\//", get_settings('siteurl'))) && ($use_cafelogping) && ($cafelogID != '')) {
 		$client = new xmlrpc_client("/xmlrpc.php", "cafelog.tidakada.com", 80);
 		$message = new xmlrpcmsg("b2.ping", array(new xmlrpcval($cafelogID), new xmlrpcval($title), new xmlrpcval($p)));
 		$result = $client->send($message);
@@ -615,14 +614,14 @@ function pingCafelog($cafelogID,$title='',$p='') {
 
 // pings Blo.gs
 function pingBlogs($blog_ID="1") {
-	global $use_blodotgsping, $blodotgsping_url, $use_rss, $blogname;
-	if ((!(($blogname=='my weblog') && (get_settings('siteurl')=='http://example.com') && (get_settings('blogfilename')=='wp.php'))) && (!preg_match('/localhost\//',get_settings('siteurl'))) && ($use_blodotgsping)) {
-		$url = ($blodotgsping_url == 'http://example.com') ? get_settings('siteurl').'/'.get_settings('blogfilename') : $blodotgsping_url;
+	global $use_rss;
+	if ((!((get_settings('blogname')=='my weblog') && (get_settings('siteurl')=='http://example.com') && (get_settings('blogfilename')=='wp.php'))) && (!preg_match('/localhost\//',get_settings('siteurl'))) && (get_settings('use_blodotgsping'))) {
+		$url = get_settings('siteurl').'/'.get_settings('blogfilename');
 		$client = new xmlrpc_client('/', 'ping.blo.gs', 80);
 		if ($use_rss) {
-			$message = new xmlrpcmsg('weblogUpdates.extendedPing', array(new xmlrpcval($blogname), new xmlrpcval($url), new xmlrpcval($url), new xmlrpcval(get_settings('siteurl').'/b2rss.xml')));
+			$message = new xmlrpcmsg('weblogUpdates.extendedPing', array(new xmlrpcval(get_settings('blogname')), new xmlrpcval($url), new xmlrpcval($url), new xmlrpcval(get_settings('siteurl').'/b2rss.xml')));
 		} else {
-			$message = new xmlrpcmsg('weblogUpdates.ping', array(new xmlrpcval($blogname), new xmlrpcval($url)));
+			$message = new xmlrpcmsg('weblogUpdates.ping', array(new xmlrpcval(get_settings('blogname')), new xmlrpcval($url)));
 		}
 		$result = $client->send($message);
 		if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) {
@@ -637,10 +636,10 @@ function pingBlogs($blog_ID="1") {
 
 // Send a Trackback
 function trackback($trackback_url, $title, $excerpt, $ID) {
-	global $blogname, $wpdb, $tableposts;
+	global $wpdb, $tableposts;
 	$title = urlencode(stripslashes($title));
 	$excerpt = urlencode(stripslashes($excerpt));
-	$blog_name = urlencode(stripslashes($blogname));
+	$blog_name = urlencode(stripslashes(get_settings('blogname')));
 	$tb_url = $trackback_url;
 	$url = urlencode(get_permalink($ID));
 	$query_string = "title=$title&url=$url&blog_name=$blog_name&excerpt=$excerpt";
@@ -971,9 +970,8 @@ function getRemoteFile($host,$path) {
 }
 
 function pingGeoURL($blog_ID) {
-    global $blodotgsping_url;
 
-    $ourUrl = $blodotgsping_url."/index.php?p=".$blog_ID;
+    $ourUrl = get_settings('siteurl') ."/index.php?p=".$blog_ID;
     $host="geourl.org";
     $path="/ping/?p=".$ourUrl;
     getRemoteFile($host,$path); 
@@ -1044,7 +1042,6 @@ function wp_get_comment_status($comment_id) {
 function wp_notify_postauthor($comment_id, $comment_type='comment') {
     global $wpdb, $tablecomments, $tableposts, $tableusers;
     global $querystring_start, $querystring_equal, $querystring_separator;
-    global $blogname, $blog_charset;
     
     $comment = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $tablecomments WHERE comment_ID='$comment_id' LIMIT 1");
     $post = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $tableposts WHERE ID='$comment->comment_post_ID' LIMIT 1");
@@ -1054,7 +1051,7 @@ function wp_notify_postauthor($comment_id, $comment_type='comment') {
 
 	$comment_author_domain = gethostbyaddr($comment->comment_author_IP);
 
-	$blogname = stripslashes($blogname);
+	$blogname = stripslashes(get_settings('blogname'));
 	
 	if ('comment' == $comment_type) {
 		$notify_message  = "New comment on your post #$comment->comment_post_ID \"".stripslashes($post->post_title)."\"\r\n\r\n";
@@ -1090,7 +1087,7 @@ function wp_notify_postauthor($comment_id, $comment_type='comment') {
 
 	$message_headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"
 		. "$from\r\n"
-		. "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"$blog_charset\"\r\n";
+		. "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"" . get_settings('blog_charset') . "\"\r\n";
 
 	@mail($user->user_email, $subject, $notify_message, $message_headers);
    
@@ -1105,7 +1102,6 @@ function wp_notify_postauthor($comment_id, $comment_type='comment') {
 function wp_notify_moderator($comment_id) {
     global $wpdb, $tablecomments, $tableposts, $tableusers;
     global $querystring_start, $querystring_equal, $querystring_separator;
-    global $blogname, $blog_charset;
     
     $comment = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $tablecomments WHERE comment_ID='$comment_id' LIMIT 1");
     $post = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $tableposts WHERE ID='$comment->comment_post_ID' LIMIT 1");
@@ -1125,13 +1121,13 @@ function wp_notify_moderator($comment_id) {
     $notify_message .= "Currently $comments_waiting comments are waiting for approval. Please visit the moderation panel:\r\n";
     $notify_message .= get_settings('siteurl') . "/wp-admin/moderation.php\r\n";
 
-    $subject = '[' . stripslashes($blogname) . '] Please approve: "' .stripslashes($post->post_title).'"';
+    $subject = '[' . stripslashes(get_settings('blogname')) . '] Please approve: "' .stripslashes($post->post_title).'"';
     $admin_email = get_settings("admin_email");
     $from  = "From: $admin_email";
 
     $message_headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"
     	. "$from\r\n"
-    	. "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"$blog_charset\"\r\n";
+    	. "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"" . get_settings('blog_charset') . "\"\r\n";
 
     @mail($admin_email, $subject, $notify_message, $message_headers);
     
diff --git a/wp-includes/template-functions-general.php b/wp-includes/template-functions-general.php
index 739f2016a..9a6f72598 100644
--- a/wp-includes/template-functions-general.php
+++ b/wp-includes/template-functions-general.php
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ function bloginfo_unicode($show='') {
 }
 
 function get_bloginfo($show='') {
-    global $blogname, $admin_email;
+    global $admin_email;
 
     $do_perma = 0;
     $feed_url = get_settings('siteurl');
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ function get_bloginfo($show='') {
             break;
         case 'name':
         default:
-            $output = $blogname;
+            $output = get_settings('blogname');
             break;
     }
     return $output;
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ function get_archives_link($url, $text, $format = "html", $before = "", $after =
 
 function get_archives($type='', $limit='', $format='html', $before = "", $after = "", $show_post_count = false) {
     global $tableposts, $time_difference;
-    global $querystring_start, $querystring_equal, $querystring_separator, $month, $wpdb, $start_of_week;
+    global $querystring_start, $querystring_equal, $querystring_separator, $month, $wpdb;
 
     if ('' == $type) {
         $type = get_settings('archive_mode');
@@ -270,9 +270,7 @@ function get_archives($type='', $limit='', $format='html', $before = "", $after
             }
         }
     } elseif ('weekly' == $type) {
-        if (!isset($start_of_week)) {
-            $start_of_week = 1;
-        }
+	$start_of_week = get_settings('start_of_week');
         $arcresults = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT DISTINCT WEEK($wp_posts_post_date_field, $start_of_week) AS `week`, YEAR($wp_posts_post_date_field) AS yr, DATE_FORMAT($wp_posts_post_date_field, '%Y-%m-%d') AS yyyymmdd FROM $tableposts WHERE post_date < '$now' AND post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY post_date DESC" . $limit);
         $arc_w_last = '';
         if ($arcresults) {
@@ -280,7 +278,7 @@ function get_archives($type='', $limit='', $format='html', $before = "", $after
                 if ($arcresult->week != $arc_w_last) {
                     $arc_year = $arcresult->yr;
                     $arc_w_last = $arcresult->week;
-                    $arc_week = get_weekstartend($arcresult->yyyymmdd, $start_of_week);
+                    $arc_week = get_weekstartend($arcresult->yyyymmdd, get_settings('start_of_week'));
                     $arc_week_start = date_i18n($archive_week_start_date_format, $arc_week['start']);
                     $arc_week_end = date_i18n($archive_week_end_date_format, $arc_week['end']);
                     $url  = sprintf('%s/%s%sm%s%s%sw%s%d', get_settings('siteurl'), get_settings('blogfilename'), $querystring_start,
diff --git a/wp-locations.php b/wp-locations.php
index d87f9f1b1..6802e7ffc 100644
--- a/wp-locations.php
+++ b/wp-locations.php
@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ for ($i = $start; $i >= 0; $i--) {
         <latitude><?php print_Lat() ?></latitude>
         <longitude><?php print_Lon() ?></longitude>
 <?php
-        if ($rss_use_excerpt) {
+        if (get_settings('rss_use_excerpt')) {
 ?>
-        <note><?php the_content_rss('', 0, '', $rss_excerpt_length, $rss_encoded_html) ?>
+        <note><?php the_content_rss('', 0, '', get_settings('rss_excerpt_length'), get_settings('rss_encoded_html')) ?>
         </note>
 <?php
         } else { // use content
 ?>
-        <note><?php the_excerpt_rss('', 0, '', $rss_excerpt_length, $rss_encoded_html) ?></note>
+        <note><?php the_excerpt_rss('', 0, '', get_settings('rss_excerpt_length'), get_settings('rss_encoded_html')) ?></note>
 <?php
         } // end else use content
 ?>
diff --git a/wp-login.php b/wp-login.php
index a45ff1d83..aaf8e28f1 100644
--- a/wp-login.php
+++ b/wp-login.php
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ case 'lostpassword':
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 	<title>WordPress &rsaquo; Lost password ?</title>
-	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $blog_charset; ?>" />
+	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo get_settings('blog_charset'); ?>" />
 	<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/wp-admin.css" type="text/css" />
 	<script type="text/javascript">
 	function focusit() {
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ case 'retrievepassword':
 	$message .= "Password: $user_pass\r\n";
 	$message .= 'Login at: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-login.php';
 
-	$m = mail($user_email, "[$blogname] Your weblog's login/password", $message);
+	$m = mail($user_email, '[' . get_settings('blogname') . "] Your weblog's login/password", $message);
 
 	if ($m == false) {
 		echo "<p>The email could not be sent.<br />\n";
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ case 'retrievepassword':
 		echo "<p>The email was sent successfully to $user_login's email address.<br />
 		<a href='wp-login.php' title='Check your email first, of course'>Click here to login!</a></p>";
 		// send a copy of password change notification to the admin
-		mail($admin_email, "[$blogname] Password Lost/Change", "Password Lost and Changed for user: $user_login");
+		mail($admin_email, '[' . get_settings('blogname') . "] Password Lost/Change", "Password Lost and Changed for user: $user_login");
 		die();
 	}
 
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ default:
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 	<title>WordPress > <?php bloginfo('name') ?> > Login form</title>
-	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $blog_charset; ?>" />
+	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo get_settings('blog_charset'); ?>" />
 	<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/wp-admin.css" type="text/css" />
 	<script type="text/javascript">
 	function focusit() {
diff --git a/wp-rdf.php b/wp-rdf.php
index 8b7d6eb3f..35108b7d6 100644
--- a/wp-rdf.php
+++ b/wp-rdf.php
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ header("Etag: " . $cetag, true);
 */
 
 add_filter('the_content', 'trim');
-if (!isset($rss_language)) { $rss_language = 'en'; }
 ?>
 <?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?".">"; ?>
 <!-- generator="wordpress/<?php echo $wp_version ?>" -->
@@ -38,7 +37,7 @@ if (!isset($rss_language)) { $rss_language = 'en'; }
 	<title><?php bloginfo_rss('name') ?></title>
 	<link><?php bloginfo_rss('url') ?></link>
 	<description><?php bloginfo_rss('description') ?></description>
-	<dc:language><?php echo $rss_language ?></dc:language>
+	<dc:language><?php echo get_settings('rss_language'); ?></dc:language>
 	<dc:date><?php echo gmdate('Y-m-d\TH:i:s'); ?></dc:date>
 	<dc:creator><?php echo antispambot($admin_email) ?></dc:creator>
 	<admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://wordpress.org/?v=<?php echo $wp_version ?>"/>
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ if (!isset($rss_language)) { $rss_language = 'en'; }
 		<rdf:Seq>
 		<?php $items_count = 0; if ($posts) { foreach ($posts as $post) { start_wp(); ?>
 			<rdf:li rdf:resource="<?php permalink_single_rss() ?>"/>
-		<?php $wp_items[] = $row; $items_count++; if (($items_count == $posts_per_rss) && empty($m)) { break; } } } ?>
+		<?php $wp_items[] = $row; $items_count++; if (($items_count == get_settings('posts_per_rss')) && empty($m)) { break; } } } ?>
 		</rdf:Seq>
 	</items>
 </channel>
@@ -61,13 +60,13 @@ if (!isset($rss_language)) { $rss_language = 'en'; }
 	<dc:date><?php the_time('Y-m-d\TH:i:s'); ?></dc:date>
 	<dc:creator><?php the_author() ?> (mailto:<?php the_author_email() ?>)</dc:creator>
 	<?php the_category_rss('rdf') ?>
-<?php $more = 1; if ($rss_use_excerpt) {
+<?php $more = 1; if (get_settings('rss_use_excerpt')) {
 ?>
-	<description><?php the_excerpt_rss($rss_excerpt_length, 2) ?></description>
+	<description><?php the_excerpt_rss(get_settings('rss_excerpt_length'), 2) ?></description>
 <?php
 } else { // use content
 ?>
-	<description><?php the_content_rss('', 0, '', $rss_excerpt_length, 2) ?></description>
+	<description><?php the_content_rss('', 0, '', get_settings('rss_excerpt_length'), 2) ?></description>
 <?php
 } // end else use content
 ?>
diff --git a/wp-register.php b/wp-register.php
index 65b9355d6..2b0db3044 100644
--- a/wp-register.php
+++ b/wp-register.php
@@ -104,17 +104,17 @@ case 'register':
 		$stars .= '*';
 	}
 
-	$message  = "New user registration on your blog $blogname:\r\n\r\n";
+	$message  = 'New user registration on your blog ' . get_settings('blogname') . ":\r\n\r\n";
 	$message .= "Login: $user_login\r\n\r\nE-mail: $user_email";
 
-	@mail($admin_email, "[$blogname] New User Registration", $message);
+	@mail($admin_email, '[' . get_settings('blogname') . '] New User Registration', $message);
 
 	?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 	<title>WordPress &raquo; Registration Complete</title>
-	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $blog_charset; ?>" />	
+	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo get_settings('blog_charset'); ?>" />	
 	<link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-admin/wp-admin.css" type="text/css" />
 </head>
 <body>
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ case 'disabled':
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 	<title>WordPress &raquo; Registration Currently Disabled</title>
-	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $blog_charset; ?>">
+	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo get_settings('blog_charset'); ?>">
 	<link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-admin/wp-admin.css" type="text/css">
 </head>
 
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ default:
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 	<title>WordPress &raquo; Registration Form</title>
-	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $blog_charset; ?>" />
+	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo get_settings('blog_charset'); ?>" />
 	<link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-admin/wp-admin.css" type="text/css" />
 </head>
 
diff --git a/wp-rss.php b/wp-rss.php
index 3ea5271c8..9185cf8be 100644
--- a/wp-rss.php
+++ b/wp-rss.php
@@ -22,9 +22,6 @@ header("Last-Modified: " . $clast, true);
 header("Etag: " . $cetag, true);
 */
 
-if (!isset($rss_language)) { $rss_language = 'en'; }
-if (!isset($rss_encoded_html)) { $rss_encoded_html = 0; }
-if (!isset($rss_excerpt_length) || ($rss_encoded_html == 1)) { $rss_excerpt_length = 0; }
 ?>
 <?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?".">"; ?>
 <!-- generator="wordpress/<?php echo $wp_version ?>" -->
@@ -37,7 +34,7 @@ if (!isset($rss_excerpt_length) || ($rss_encoded_html == 1)) { $rss_excerpt_leng
         <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
         <managingEditor><?php echo antispambot($admin_email) ?></managingEditor>
         <webMaster><?php echo antispambot($admin_email) ?></webMaster>
-        <language><?php echo $rss_language ?></language>
+        <language><?php echo get_settings('rss_language'); ?></language>
 
 <?php $items_count = 0; if ($posts) { foreach ($posts as $post) { start_wp(); ?>
         <item>
@@ -47,18 +44,18 @@ if (!isset($rss_excerpt_length) || ($rss_encoded_html == 1)) { $rss_excerpt_leng
 // so that it doesn't appear at all in the RSS
 //          echo "<category>"; the_category_unicode(); echo "</category>";
 $more = 1; 
-if ($rss_use_excerpt) {
+if (get_settings('rss_use_excerpt')) {
 ?>
-            <description><?php the_excerpt_rss($rss_excerpt_length, $rss_encoded_html) ?></description>
+            <description><?php the_excerpt_rss(get_settings('rss_excerpt_length'), get_settings('rss_encoded_html')) ?></description>
 <?php
 } else { // use content
 ?>
-            <description><?php the_content_rss('', 0, '', $rss_excerpt_length, $rss_encoded_html) ?></description>
+            <description><?php the_content_rss('', 0, '', get_settings('rss_excerpt_length'), get_settings('rss_encoded_html')) ?></description>
 <?php
 } // end else use content
 ?>
             <link><?php permalink_single_rss() ?></link>
         </item>
-<?php $items_count++; if (($items_count == $posts_per_rss) && empty($m)) { break; } } } ?>
+<?php $items_count++; if (($items_count == get_settings('posts_per_rss')) && empty($m)) { break; } } } ?>
     </channel>
 </rss>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/wp-rss2.php b/wp-rss2.php
index ef2ac6359..4b7a04b24 100644
--- a/wp-rss2.php
+++ b/wp-rss2.php
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ header("Last-Modified: " . $clast, true);
 header("Etag: " . $cetag, true);
 */
 
-if (!isset($rss_language)) { $rss_language = 'en'; }
-if (!isset($rss_encoded_html)) { $rss_encoded_html = 0; }
-if (!isset($rss_excerpt_length) || ($rss_encoded_html == 1)) { $rss_excerpt_length = 0; }
 ?>
 <?php echo '<?xml version="1.0"?'.'>'; ?>
 <!-- generator="wordpress/<?php echo $wp_version ?>" -->
@@ -48,18 +45,18 @@ if (!isset($rss_excerpt_length) || ($rss_encoded_html == 1)) { $rss_excerpt_leng
 		<author><?php the_author() ?> (mailto:<?php the_author_email() ?>)</author>
 		<?php the_category_rss() ?>
 		<guid isPermaLink="false"><?php echo $id; ?>@<?php bloginfo_rss("url") ?></guid>
-<?php $more = 1; if ($rss_use_excerpt) {
+<?php $more = 1; if (get_settings('rss_use_excerpt')) {
 ?>
-		<description><?php the_excerpt_rss($rss_excerpt_length, 2) ?></description>
+		<description><?php the_excerpt_rss(get_settings('rss_excerpt_length'), 2) ?></description>
 <?php
 } else { // use content
 ?>
-		<description><?php the_content_rss('', 0, '', $rss_excerpt_length, 2) ?></description>
+		<description><?php the_content_rss('', 0, '', get_settings('rss_excerpt_length'), 2) ?></description>
 <?php
 } // end else use content
 ?>
 		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_content('', 0, '') ?>]]></content:encoded>
 	</item>
-	<?php $items_count++; if (($items_count == $posts_per_rss) && empty($m)) { break; } } } ?>
+	<?php $items_count++; if (($items_count == get_settings('posts_per_rss')) && empty($m)) { break; } } } ?>
 </channel>
 </rss>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/wp-settings.php b/wp-settings.php
index ef7a33279..cd5bc08d6 100644
--- a/wp-settings.php
+++ b/wp-settings.php
@@ -49,31 +49,7 @@ require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/kses.php');
 // get_settings() wherever these are needed OR
 // accessing a single global $all_settings var
 if (!strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'install.php') && !strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'wp-admin/import')) {
-    $blogname = get_settings('blogname');
     $admin_email = get_settings('admin_email');
-    $blog_charset = get_settings('blog_charset');
-    $start_of_week = get_settings('start_of_week');
-    $use_htmltrans = get_settings('use_htmltrans');
-    $use_balanceTags = get_settings('use_balanceTags');
-    $use_fileupload = get_settings('use_fileupload');
-    $fileupload_realpath = get_settings('fileupload_realpath');
-    $fileupload_url = get_settings('fileupload_url');
-    $fileupload_allowedtypes = get_settings('fileupload_allowedtypes');
-    $fileupload_maxk = get_settings('fileupload_maxk');
-    $fileupload_minlevel = get_settings('fileupload_minlevel');
-    $fileupload_allowedusers = get_settings('fileupload_allowedusers');
-    $posts_per_rss = get_settings('posts_per_rss');
-    $rss_language = get_settings('rss_language');
-    $rss_encoded_html = get_settings('rss_encoded_html');
-    $rss_excerpt_length = get_settings('rss_excerpt_length');
-    $rss_use_excerpt = get_settings('rss_use_excerpt');
-    $use_weblogsping = get_settings('use_weblogsping');
-    $use_blodotgsping = get_settings('use_blodotgsping');
-    $blodotgsping_url = get_settings('blodotgsping_url');
-    $use_trackback = get_settings('use_trackback');
-    $use_pingback = get_settings('use_pingback');
-    $require_name_email = get_settings('require_name_email');
-    $comments_notify = get_settings('comments_notify');
     $use_smilies = get_settings('use_smilies');
     $smilies_directory = get_settings('smilies_directory');
     $mailserver_url = get_settings('mailserver_url');
diff --git a/wp-trackback.php b/wp-trackback.php
index 4f80b5ac7..0096f0e11 100644
--- a/wp-trackback.php
+++ b/wp-trackback.php
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ if ((strlen(''.$tb_id)) && (empty($HTTP_GET_VARS['__mode'])) && (strlen(''.$tb_u
 
 	@header('Content-Type: text/xml');
 
-	if (!$use_trackback)
+	if (!get_settings('use_trackback'))
 		trackback_response(1, 'Sorry, this weblog does not allow you to trackback its posts.');
 
 	$pingstatus = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ping_status FROM $tableposts WHERE ID = $tb_id");
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ if ((strlen(''.$tb_id)) && (empty($HTTP_GET_VARS['__mode'])) && (strlen(''.$tb_u
 		die ("There is an error with the database, it can't store your comment...<br />Please contact the <a href='mailto:$admin_email'>webmaster</a>.");
 	} else {
 		$comment_ID = $wpdb->get_var('SELECT last_insert_id()');
-		if ($comments_notify)
+		if (get_settings('comments_notify'))
 			wp_notify_postauthor($comment_ID, 'trackback');
 		trackback_response(0);
 	}
diff --git a/wp.php b/wp.php
index b222c7977..1eb35e3b3 100644
--- a/wp.php
+++ b/wp.php
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ require_once("wp-blog-header.php");
 <head>
   <title><?php bloginfo('name') ?><?php single_post_title(' :: ') ?><?php single_cat_title(' :: ') ?><?php single_month_title(' :: ') ?></title>
   <!-- Change charset if needed(?)  But please do not remove this metatag -->
-  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $blog_charset; ?>" />
+  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo get_settings('blog_charset'); ?>" />
   <meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php $wp_version ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->
   <meta http-equiv="reply-to" content="you@somewhere.zzz" />
   <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RDF" href="<?php bloginfo('rdf_url'); ?>" />
