diff --git a/lisp/org-agenda.el b/lisp/org-agenda.el
index 98a2cc048..ac1b5b1b0 100644
--- a/lisp/org-agenda.el
+++ b/lisp/org-agenda.el
@@ -5889,8 +5889,18 @@ could bind the variable in the options section of a custom command.")
       (let ((pl (text-property-any 0 (length x) 'org-heading t x)))
 	(setq re (get-text-property 0 'org-todo-regexp x))
 	(when (and re
+		   ;; Test `pl' because if there's no heading content,
+		   ;; there's no point matching to highlight.  Note
+		   ;; that if we didn't test `pl' first, and there
+		   ;; happened to be no keyword from `org-todo-regexp'
+		   ;; on this heading line, then the `equal' comparison
+		   ;; afterwards would spuriously succeed in the case
+		   ;; where `pl' is nil -- causing an args-out-of-range
+		   ;; error when we try to add text properties to text
+		   ;; that isn't there.
+		   pl
 		   (equal (string-match (concat "\\(\\.*\\)" re "\\( +\\)")
-					x (or pl 0)) pl))
+					x pl) pl))
 	  (add-text-properties
 	   (or (match-end 1) (match-end 0)) (match-end 0)
 	   (list 'face (org-get-todo-face (match-string 2 x)))
diff --git a/lisp/org-bbdb.el b/lisp/org-bbdb.el
index 07ce2bc5e..7fddbb2b6 100644
--- a/lisp/org-bbdb.el
+++ b/lisp/org-bbdb.el
@@ -112,11 +112,9 @@
           (&optional dont-check-disk already-in-db-buffer))
 (declare-function bbdb-split "ext:bbdb" (string separators))
 (declare-function bbdb-string-trim "ext:bbdb" (string))
-(declare-function bbdb-record-get-field "ext:bbdb"
-		  (fn file &optional arglist fileonly))
-;; These two functions below are part of BBDB3:
-(declare-function bbdb-search-name "ext:bbdb" (regexp &optional layout))
-(declare-function bbdb-search-organization "ext:bbdb" (regexp &optional layout))
+(declare-function bbdb-record-get-field "ext:bbdb" (record field))
+(declare-function bbdb-search-name "ext:bbdb-com" (regexp &optional layout))
+(declare-function bbdb-search-organization "ext:bbdb-com" (regexp &optional layout))
 
 (declare-function calendar-leap-year-p "calendar" (year))
 (declare-function diary-ordinal-suffix "diary-lib" (n))
@@ -228,10 +226,10 @@ italicized, in all other cases it is left unchanged."
   (let ((inhibit-redisplay (not debug-on-error))
 	(bbdb-electric-p nil))
     (if (fboundp 'bbdb-name)
-        (org-bbdb-open-old)
-      (org-bbdb-open-new))))
+        (org-bbdb-open-old name)
+      (org-bbdb-open-new name))))
 
-(defun org-bbdb-open-old ()
+(defun org-bbdb-open-old (name)
   (catch 'exit
     ;; Exact match on name
     (bbdb-name (concat "\\`" name "\\'") nil)
@@ -251,7 +249,7 @@ italicized, in all other cases it is left unchanged."
       (delete-window (get-buffer-window "*BBDB*"))
       (error "No matching BBDB record"))))
 
-(defun org-bbdb-open-new ()
+(defun org-bbdb-open-new (name)
   (catch 'exit
     ;; Exact match on name
     (bbdb-search-name (concat "\\`" name "\\'") nil)
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index abafde8b4..859748a2a 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -7948,7 +7948,7 @@ the following will happen:
   repeater intact.
 - the start days in the repeater in the original entry will be shifted
   to past the last clone.
-I this way you can spell out a number of instances of a repeating task,
+In this way you can spell out a number of instances of a repeating task,
 and still retain the repeater to cover future instances of the task."
   (interactive "nNumber of clones to produce: \nsDate shift per clone (e.g. +1w, empty to copy unchanged): ")
   (let (beg end template task idprop
@@ -7975,7 +7975,7 @@ and still retain the repeater to cover future instances of the task."
     (setq end (point))
     (setq template (buffer-substring beg end))
     (when (and doshift
-	       (string-match "<[^<>\n]+ \\+[0-9]+[dwmy][^<>\n]*>" template))
+	       (string-match "<[^<>\n]+ [.+]?\\+[0-9]+[dwmy][^<>\n]*>" template))
       (delete-region beg end)
       (setq end beg)
       (setq nmin 0 nmax (1+ nmax) n-no-remove nmax))
@@ -8006,7 +8006,7 @@ and still retain the repeater to cover future instances of the task."
 		(while (re-search-forward org-ts-regexp nil t)
 		  (save-excursion
 		    (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
-		    (if (looking-at "<[^<>\n]+\\( +\\+[0-9]+[dwmy]\\)")
+		    (if (looking-at "<[^<>\n]+\\( +[.+]?\\+[0-9]+[dwmy]\\)")
 			(delete-region (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)))))))
 	    (setq task (buffer-string)))
 	  (insert task))