diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 6c278fe4..85c53adb 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -347,7 +347,6 @@ main (gint argc, gchar *argv[])
     int fd2 = open ("stderr.log", O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC, 0666);
     dup2 (fd2, 2);
 #endif
-    gtk_set_locale ();
     gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
 
     main_init(&argc, &argv);
diff --git a/src/misc.c b/src/misc.c
index e034117d..5783905a 100644
--- a/src/misc.c
+++ b/src/misc.c
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ misc_string_choose_random(gchar *string)
       return;
       
    count = math_rndi(0, count - 1) + 1;
-   start = string;
+   start = g_strdup(string);
    for (i = 0; string[i]; i++)
       if (string[i] == STR_SEP)
       {
diff --git a/src/treeview.c b/src/treeview.c
index 2aa3ccd4..8da1b6d3 100644
--- a/src/treeview.c
+++ b/src/treeview.c
@@ -2741,6 +2741,7 @@ treeview_create_country_list(const GPtrArray *country_list)
              }
 	}
         g_strfreev(dir_split_up);
+        g_free(current_country);
     }
 
     return GTK_TREE_MODEL(ls);
diff --git a/src/xml_league.c b/src/xml_league.c
index 74294714..f4efc42a 100644
--- a/src/xml_league.c
+++ b/src/xml_league.c
@@ -258,8 +258,8 @@ xml_league_read_start_element (GMarkupParseContext *context,
     else if(strcmp(element_name, TAG_TEAM) == 0)
     {
 	new_team = team_new(TRUE);
-	misc_string_assign(&new_team.symbol, new_league.symbol);
-	misc_string_assign(&new_team.names_file, new_league.names_file);
+	misc_string_assign(&(new_team.symbol), new_league.symbol);
+	misc_string_assign(&(new_team.names_file), new_league.names_file);
 	new_team.clid = new_league.id;
 	g_array_append_val(new_league.teams, new_team);	
 	state = STATE_TEAM;