What does not work with 1.3.8? Do not collect data? Try this:
Code:
<?php
/**
 * user_tracking functions
 *
 * @package user_tracking
 * @copyright Copyright 2004-2009 Andrew Berezin eCommerce-Service.com
 * @copyright Portions Copyright 2005 Petter Norrman
 * @copyright Copyright 2003-2007 Zen Cart Development Team
 * @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
 * @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
 * @version $Id: user_tracking.php 1.4 13.02.2008 4:18 Andrew Berezin $
 */

  function net_match($network, $ip) {
    if (($ip_long = ip2long($ip)) === false) return false;
    // determines if a network in the form of 192.168.17.1/16 or
    // 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 or 10.0.0.1 matches a given ip
    $ip_arr = explode('/', $network);
    if (($network_long = ip2long($ip_arr[0])) === false) return false;
    if (!isset($ip_arr[1])) $ip_arr[1] = '255.255.255.255';
    $x = ip2long($ip_arr[1]);
    $mask = long2ip($x) == $ip_arr[1] ? $x : 0xffffffff << (32 - $ip_arr[1]);
    return ($ip_long & $mask) == ($network_long & $mask);
  }

  function zen_update_user_tracking() {
    global $db;

    $wo_ip_address = (isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) ? $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] : 'Unknown');
    foreach (explode(",", CONFIG_USER_TRACKING_EXCLUDED) as $skip_ip) {
      if ($skip_this_ip = net_match(trim($skip_ip), $wo_ip_address)) {
        break;
      }
    }
    if ($skip_this_ip == true) return;

    if (isset($_SESSION['customer_id']) && (int)$_SESSION['customer_id'] > 0) {
      $wo_customer_id = (int)$_SESSION['customer_id'];
      $customer = $db->Execute("SELECT customers_firstname, customers_lastname 
                                FROM " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . " 
                                WHERE customers_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['customer_id'] . "'");
      $wo_full_name = $customer->fields['customers_firstname'] . ' ' . $customer->fields['customers_lastname'];
    } else {
      $wo_customer_id = 0;
      $wo_full_name = '&yen;' . 'Guest';
    }

    if (!isset($spider_flag)) {
      $user_agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
      $spider_flag = false;
      if (zen_not_null($user_agent)) {
        $spiders = file(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'spiders.txt');
        for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($spiders); $i<$n; $i++) {
          if (zen_not_null($spiders[$i])) {
            if (is_integer(strpos($user_agent, trim($spiders[$i])))) {
              $spider_flag = true;
              break;
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
    if ($spider_flag) {
      $wo_full_name = 'BOT ' . trim($spiders[$i]);
    }

    $wo_session_id = zen_session_id();

    if ($wo_session_id == '') {
      $wo_session_id = gethostbyaddr($wo_ip_address);
    }

    $wo_last_page_url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

    $referer_url = (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) ? $wo_last_page_url : $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

    global $breadcrumb;
    $page_desc = $breadcrumb->trail(BREAD_CRUMBS_SEPARATOR);
    $page_desc = strip_tags($page_desc);
    $page_desc = str_replace(BREAD_CRUMBS_SEPARATOR . "\n" . 'NAVBAR_TITLE', '', $page_desc); // Fix for TPP
    $page_desc = str_replace(array("\n", '&nbsp;', '  '), array(' '), $page_desc);
    $page_desc = trim($page_desc);

    $current_time = time();

//    $db->Execute("ALTER TABLE " . TABLE_USER_TRACKING . " CHANGE page_desc page_desc VARCHAR(254)");

    $sql = "INSERT INTO " . TABLE_USER_TRACKING . " (customer_id, full_name, session_id, ip_address, time_entry, time_last_click, last_page_url, referer_url, page_desc) VALUES (:customer_id:, :wo_full_name:, :wo_session_id:, :wo_ip_address:, :current_time:, :current_time:, :wo_last_page_url:, :referer_url:, :page_desc:)";
    $sql = $db->bindVars($sql, ':customer_id:', $wo_customer_id, 'integer');
    $sql = $db->bindVars($sql, ':wo_full_name:', $wo_full_name, 'string');
    $sql = $db->bindVars($sql, ':wo_session_id:', $wo_session_id, 'string');
    $sql = $db->bindVars($sql, ':wo_ip_address:', $wo_ip_address, 'string');
    $sql = $db->bindVars($sql, ':current_time:', $current_time, 'integer');
    $sql = $db->bindVars($sql, ':wo_last_page_url:', $wo_last_page_url, 'string');
    $sql = $db->bindVars($sql, ':referer_url:', $referer_url, 'string');
    $sql = $db->bindVars($sql, ':page_desc:', $page_desc, 'string');
    $db->Execute($sql);

  }