I'm at work so I can't look at the fileset from here.. But all of that admin notes code was removed from SO3. So I'll have to take a look when I get home and see if there is a remnant I'm unaware of in the fileset. Truthfully I don't think there is as I am running SO3 with FEC on my test store and I don't get that error.. (and I'm pretty sure that it's not left in the SO3 fileset) Just out of curiosity, when you say "SO3 patch from Fast and easy checkout", where did you get this patch??
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