Index: lat/ViewPluginManager.cs
===================================================================
--- lat/ViewPluginManager.cs	(revision 11)
+++ lat/ViewPluginManager.cs	(revision 14)
@@ -253,8 +253,21 @@
 			if (!di.Exists)
 				di.Create ();
 
+			DirectoryInfo dir = null;
+
+#if DEBUG
+			// Load any plugins in the plugins directory
+			// relative to the executing path.
+			// This is for debug purposes only.
+			//		-- JA 19/10/2008
+			Assembly exeAsm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
+			string runLocation = Path.GetDirectoryName(exeAsm.Location);
+			dir = new DirectoryInfo(runLocation);
+			foreach(FileInfo fi in dir.GetFiles("*.dll"))
+				LoadPluginsFromFile(fi.FullName);
+#endif
 			// Load any plugins in sys dir
-			DirectoryInfo dir = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo (Defines.SYS_PLUGIN_DIR);
+			dir = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo (Defines.SYS_PLUGIN_DIR);
 			if (dir.Exists)
 				foreach (FileInfo f in dir.GetFiles("*.dll"))
 					LoadPluginsFromFile (f.FullName);
Index: lat/ConnectionManager.cs
===================================================================
--- lat/ConnectionManager.cs	(revision 11)
+++ lat/ConnectionManager.cs	(revision 14)
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 			} catch (Exception e) {
 
 				Log.Debug (e);
-				throw e;
+				throw;
 			}
 		}
 		
Index: lat/plugins/PosixCoreViews/NewUserViewDialog.cs
===================================================================
--- lat/plugins/PosixCoreViews/NewUserViewDialog.cs	(revision 11)
+++ lat/plugins/PosixCoreViews/NewUserViewDialog.cs	(revision 14)
@@ -326,6 +326,9 @@
 			if (name == null)
 				return null;
 
+			if (!_allGroups.ContainsKey(name))
+				return null;
+			
 			LdapEntry le = (LdapEntry) _allGroups [name];		
 			LdapAttribute attr = le.getAttribute ("gidNumber");
 
@@ -343,7 +346,9 @@
 				
 			if (primaryGroupComboBox.GetActiveIter (out iter)) {
 				string pg = (string) primaryGroupComboBox.Model.GetValue (iter, 0);
-				aset.Add (new LdapAttribute ("gidNumber", getGidNumber(pg)));
+				string gid = getGidNumber(pg);
+				if (gid != null)
+					aset.Add (new LdapAttribute ("gidNumber", gid));
 			}
 						
 			aset.Add (new LdapAttribute ("givenName", firstNameEntry.Text));
Index: lat/AttributeEditorWidget.cs
===================================================================
--- lat/AttributeEditorWidget.cs	(revision 11)
+++ lat/AttributeEditorWidget.cs	(revision 14)
@@ -555,6 +555,9 @@
 			foreach (string s in dlg.ObjectClasses) {
 				string[] req = conn.Data.GetRequiredAttrs (s);
 				store.AppendValues ("objectClass", s);
+
+				if (req == null)
+					continue;
 				
 				foreach (string r in req) {
 					if (allAttrs.Contains (r))