diff --git a/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel-ref.el b/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel-ref.el
index 8177566ef..f7550ac0f 100644
--- a/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel-ref.el
+++ b/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel-ref.el
@@ -59,8 +59,9 @@
 names, and the emacs-lisp representation of the related value."
   (let ((assignments
 	 (delq nil (mapcar (lambda (pair) (if (eq (car pair) :var) (cdr pair))) params)))
-	(other-params (assq-delete-all :var params)))
-    (mapcar (lambda (assignment) (org-babel-ref-parse assignment other-params)) assignments)))
+	(others
+         (delq nil (mapcar (lambda (pair) (unless (eq :var (car pair)) pair)) params))))
+    (mapcar (lambda (assignment) (org-babel-ref-parse assignment others)) assignments)))
 
 (defvar org-babel-ref-split-regexp
   "[ \f\t\n\r\v]*\\(.+?\\)[ \f\t\n\r\v]*=[ \f\t\n\r\v]*\\(.+\\)[ \f\t\n\r\v]*")
diff --git a/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel-table.el b/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel-table.el
index 04ff35ce6..c53d263b9 100644
--- a/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel-table.el
+++ b/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel-table.el
@@ -61,12 +61,11 @@
     string))
 
 (defmacro sbe (source-block &rest variables)
-  "Return the results of calling SOURCE-BLOCK with all assigning
-every variable in VARIABLES.  Each element of VARIABLES should be
-a two element list, whose first element is the name of the
-variable and second element is a string of its value.  The
-following call to `sbe' would be equivalent to the following
-source code block.
+  "Return the results of calling SOURCE-BLOCK assigning every
+variable in VARIABLES.  Each element of VARIABLES should be a two
+element list, whose first element is the name of the variable and
+second element is a string of its value.  The following call to
+`sbe' would be equivalent to the following source code block.
 
  (sbe 'source-block (n 2) (m 3))
 
@@ -85,7 +84,9 @@ results
 					   (format "%S=%s" (first var-spec) (second var-spec)))
 					 ',variables ", ")
 			      ")")))))
-         (org-babel-execute-src-block t (list "emacs-lisp" "results" params)))
+         (org-babel-execute-src-block
+          nil (list "emacs-lisp" "results"
+                    (org-babel-merge-params '((:results . "silent")) params))))
      "")))
 
 (provide 'org-babel-table)
diff --git a/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel.el b/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel.el
index 7eb313bd1..adf78d37e 100644
--- a/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel.el
+++ b/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel.el
@@ -189,15 +189,17 @@ the header arguments specified at the source code block."
          (result-type (fourth processed-params))
          (cmd (intern (concat "org-babel-execute:" lang)))
          result)
-    ;; (message "params=%S" params) ;; debugging statement
-    ;; (message "vars=%S" (second processed-params)) ;; debugging statement
+    ;; (message "params=%S" params) ;; debugging
     (unless (member lang org-babel-interpreters)
       (error "Language is not in `org-babel-interpreters': %s" lang))
     (when arg (setq result-params (cons "silent" result-params)))
-    (setq result (multiple-value-bind (session vars result-params result-type) processed-params
-                   (funcall cmd body params)))
+    (setq result (funcall cmd body params))
     (if (eq result-type 'value)
-        (setq result (org-babel-process-value-result result result-params)))
+        (setq result (if (and (or (member "vector" result-params)
+                                  (member "table" result-params))
+                              (not (listp result)))
+                         (list (list result))
+                       result)))
     (org-babel-insert-result result result-params info)
     result))
 
@@ -267,26 +269,6 @@ results already exist."
               (insert (echo-res results))))))
       t)))
 
-(defun org-babel-process-value-result (result result-params)
-  "Process returned value for insertion in buffer.
-
-Currently, this function forces to table output if :results
-table or :results vector has been supplied.
-
-  You can see below the various fragments of results-processing
-code that were present in the language-specific files. Out of
-those fragments, I've moved the org-babel-python-table-or-results
-and org-babel-import-elisp-from-file functionality into the
-org-babel-*-evaluate functions. I think those should only be used
-in the :results value case, as in the 'output case we are not
-concerned with creating elisp versions of results. "
-
-  (if (and (or (member "vector" result-params)
-               (member "table" result-params))
-           (not (listp result)))
-      (list (list result))
-    result))
-
 (defun org-babel-execute-buffer (&optional arg)
   "Replace EVAL snippets in the entire buffer."
   (interactive "P")