diff --git a/classes/Profile.php b/classes/Profile.php
index f635ee470d..5eebd64a0d 100644
--- a/classes/Profile.php
+++ b/classes/Profile.php
@@ -273,16 +273,7 @@ class Profile extends Memcached_DataObject
             self::cacheSet($keypart, implode(',', $ids));
         }
 
-        $groups = array();
-
-        foreach ($ids as $id) {
-            $group = User_group::staticGet('id', $id);
-            if (!empty($group)) {
-                $groups[] = $group;
-            }
-        }
-
-        return new ArrayWrapper($groups);
+        return User_group::multiGet('id', $ids);
     }
 
     function isTagged($peopletag)
diff --git a/classes/User_group.php b/classes/User_group.php
index 6168f219b9..38cc5603db 100644
--- a/classes/User_group.php
+++ b/classes/User_group.php
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ class User_group extends Memcached_DataObject
     function staticGet($k,$v=NULL) {
         return Memcached_DataObject::staticGet('User_group',$k,$v);
     }
+    
+    function multiGet($keyCol, $keyVals, $skipNulls=true)
+    {
+        return parent::multiGet('User_group', $keyCol, $keyVals, $skipNulls);
+    }
 
     /* the code above is auto generated do not remove the tag below */
     ###END_AUTOCODE