diff --git a/classes/Profile.php b/classes/Profile.php
index e1bba076e9..ffa5a46439 100644
--- a/classes/Profile.php
+++ b/classes/Profile.php
@@ -549,14 +549,22 @@ class Profile extends Managed_DataObject
     function getSubscribed($offset=0, $limit=null)
     {
         $subs = Subscription::getSubscribedIDs($this->id, $offset, $limit);
-        $profiles = Profile::listFind('id', $subs);
+        try {
+            $profiles = Profile::listFind('id', $subs);
+        } catch (NoResultException $e) {
+            return $e->obj;
+        }
         return $profiles;
     }
 
     function getSubscribers($offset=0, $limit=null)
     {
         $subs = Subscription::getSubscriberIDs($this->id, $offset, $limit);
-        $profiles = Profile::listFind('id', $subs);
+        try {
+            $profiles = Profile::listFind('id', $subs);
+        } catch (NoResultException $e) {
+            return $e->obj;
+        }
         return $profiles;
     }
 
diff --git a/lib/noavatarexception.php b/lib/noavatarexception.php
index 1f90aaf71c..ac411579c5 100644
--- a/lib/noavatarexception.php
+++ b/lib/noavatarexception.php
@@ -31,8 +31,11 @@ if (!defined('GNUSOCIAL')) { exit(1); }
 
 class NoAvatarException extends NoResultException
 {
-    public function __construct(Profile $target, Avatar $avatar)
+    public $target;
+
+    public function __construct(Profile $target, Avatar $obj)
     {
-        parent::__construct($avatar);
+        $this->target = $target;
+        parent::__construct($obj);
     }
 }
diff --git a/lib/noresultexception.php b/lib/noresultexception.php
index 6eb83b89d2..b664dab5e7 100644
--- a/lib/noresultexception.php
+++ b/lib/noresultexception.php
@@ -31,8 +31,11 @@ if (!defined('GNUSOCIAL')) { exit(1); }
 
 class NoResultException extends ServerException
 {
+    public $obj;    // The object with query that gave no results
+
     public function __construct(DB_DataObject $obj)
     {
+        $this->obj = $obj;
         // We could log an entry here with the search parameters
         parent::__construct(sprintf(_('No result found on %s lookup.'), get_class($obj)));
     }
diff --git a/lib/profilelist.php b/lib/profilelist.php
index 085690b9f7..11ed8945e9 100644
--- a/lib/profilelist.php
+++ b/lib/profilelist.php
@@ -85,15 +85,8 @@ class ProfileList extends Widget
 
     function showProfiles()
     {
-        // Note: we don't use fetchAll() because it's borked with query()
-
-        $profiles = array();
-
-        while ($this->profile->fetch()) {
-            $profiles[] = clone($this->profile);
-        }
-
-        $cnt = count($profiles);
+        $cnt = $this->profile->N;
+        $profiles = $this->profile->fetchAll();
 
         $max = min($cnt, $this->maxProfiles());