diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8152b903e..5fdfbdecc 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ $Source$
 
 2001-08-04  Steve Alberty  <alberty@neptunlabs.de>
 	* lib.inc.php3: fixed #444017 (thanks anonymous)
+	* db_details.php3, tbl_replace.php3, sql.php3, user_details.php3
+	  fixed #444542 - replace preg_xxx with ereg (thanks Marc)
 
 2001-08-04  Loïc Chapeaux  <lolo@phpheaven.net>
 	* config.inc.php3, db_details.php3, Documentation.html,
diff --git a/db_details.php3 b/db_details.php3
index 92b6e7a40..6872b7dd3 100755
--- a/db_details.php3
+++ b/db_details.php3
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ if ($num_tables > 0 && MYSQL_MAJOR_VERSION >= 3.23 && intval(MYSQL_MINOR_VERSION
         if ($result != FALSE && mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
             while ($tmp = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
                 // if in use memorize tablename
-                if (preg_match('/in_use=[1-9]+/', $tmp['Comment'])) {
+                if (eregi('in_use=[1-9]+', $tmp)) {
                     $sot_cache[$tmp[0]] = TRUE;
                 }
             }
@@ -443,8 +443,8 @@ if ($num_tables > 0) {
     <?php
     // gzip and bzip2 encode features
     if (PMA_INT_VERSION >= 40004) {
-        $is_gzip = ($cfgGZipDump && @function_exists('gzencode'));
-        $is_bzip = ($cfgBZipDump && @function_exists('bzcompress'));
+        $is_gzip = @function_exists('gzencode');
+        $is_bzip = @function_exists('bzcompress');
         if ($is_gzip || $is_bzip) {
             echo "\n" . '                (';
             if ($is_gzip) {
diff --git a/sql.php3 b/sql.php3
index 60b1570ef..fbd416b98 100755
--- a/sql.php3
+++ b/sql.php3
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ if (isset($goto) && $goto == 'sql.php3') {
 }
 if (isset($btnDrop) && $btnDrop == $strNo) {
     if (file_exists('./' . $goto)) {
-        include('./' . preg_replace('/\.\.*/', '.', $goto));
+        include('./' . ereg_replace('\.\.*', '.', $goto));
     } else {
         header('Location: ' . $goto);
     }
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ else {
             } else {
                 $message = $strEmptyResultSet;
             }
-            $goto = preg_replace('/\.\.*/', '.', $goto);
+            $goto = ereg_replace('\.\.*', '.', $goto);
             if ($goto != 'main.php3') {
                 include('./header.inc.php3');
             }
diff --git a/tbl_replace.php3 b/tbl_replace.php3
index 7992b037b..405272207 100755
--- a/tbl_replace.php3
+++ b/tbl_replace.php3
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ if (!$result) {
     if (file_exists('./' . $goto)) {
         include('./header.inc.php3');
         $message = $strModifications;
-        include('./' . preg_replace('/\.\.*/', '.', $goto));
+        include('./' . ereg_replace('\.\.*', '.', $goto)); //preg_replace('/\.\.*/', '.', $goto));
     } else {
         header('Location: ' . $goto);
     }
diff --git a/user_details.php3 b/user_details.php3
index 82d2a8555..a706558f4 100644
--- a/user_details.php3
+++ b/user_details.php3
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ function table_grants($host, $user, $dbcheck = FALSE)
     $i = 0;
     while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
 
-        if (preg_match("/GRANT (.*) ON ([^\.]+).([^\.]+) TO .*$/i", $row[0], $parts)) {
+        if (eregi("GRANT (.*) ON ([^\.]+).([^\.]+) TO .*$", $row[0], $parts)) {
             $priv = $parts[1];
             $db = $parts[2];
             $table = trim($parts[3]);