diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7d1cac0a..6f2f3acc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ NEWS ( CHANGELOG and HISTORY )                                     HTMLPurifier
   performed on it, ensuring that its internal state stays consistent.
   To revert this behavior, you can set the $autoFinalize member variable 
   off, but it's not recommended.
+- Deprecated and removed EnableRedundantUTF8Cleaning. It didn't even work!
 . Unit test for ElementDef created, ElementDef behavior modified to
   be more flexible
 . Added convenience functions for HTMLModule constructors
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier.php b/library/HTMLPurifier.php
index 3d538bca..dfd252f1 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier.php
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 // almost every class has an undocumented dependency to these, so make sure
 // they get included
-require_once 'HTMLPurifier/ConfigSchema.php';
+require_once 'HTMLPurifier/ConfigSchema.php'; // important
 require_once 'HTMLPurifier/Config.php';
 require_once 'HTMLPurifier/Context.php';
 
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/AttrCollections.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/AttrCollections.php
index 9e056626..da5445db 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/AttrCollections.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/AttrCollections.php
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 
 require_once 'HTMLPurifier/AttrTypes.php';
-require_once 'HTMLPurifier/AttrDef/Lang.php';
 
 /**
  * Defines common attribute collections that modules reference
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/Config.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/Config.php
index e082463f..373123e8 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/Config.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/Config.php
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 <?php
 
+require_once 'HTMLPurifier/ConfigSchema.php';
+
+// member variables
+require_once 'HTMLPurifier/HTMLDefinition.php';
+require_once 'HTMLPurifier/CSSDefinition.php';
+require_once 'HTMLPurifier/Doctype.php';
+
 /**
  * Configuration object that triggers customizable behavior.
  *
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/ElementDef.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/ElementDef.php
index d99bfab5..e1be0494 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/ElementDef.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/ElementDef.php
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class HTMLPurifier_ElementDef
      * have to worry about this one.
      * @public
      */
-    var $descendants_are_inline;
+    var $descendants_are_inline = false;
     
     /**
      * Lookup table of tags excluded from all descendants of this tag.
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ class HTMLPurifier_ElementDef
             $this->child = false;
         }
         if(!is_null($def->child)) $this->child = $def->child;
-        if(!is_null($def->descendants_are_inline)) $this->descendants_are_inline = $def->descendants_are_inline;
+        if($def->descendants_are_inline) $this->descendants_are_inline = $def->descendants_are_inline;
         if(!is_null($def->safe)) $this->safe = $def->safe;
         
     }
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/Encoder.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/Encoder.php
index 1a22b452..cddcdb40 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/Encoder.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/Encoder.php
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 <?php
 
-require_once 'HTMLPurifier/EntityLookup.php';
-
 HTMLPurifier_ConfigSchema::define(
     'Core', 'Encoding', 'utf-8', 'istring', 
     'If for some reason you are unable to convert all webpages to UTF-8, '. 
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/Generator.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/Generator.php
index 028e81df..c2a723d5 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/Generator.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/Generator.php
@@ -1,19 +1,5 @@
 <?php
 
-require_once 'HTMLPurifier/Lexer.php';
-
-HTMLPurifier_ConfigSchema::define(
-    'Output', 'EnableRedundantUTF8Cleaning', false, 'bool',
-    'When true, HTMLPurifier_Generator will also check all strings it '.
-    'escapes for UTF-8 well-formedness as a defense in depth measure. '.
-    'This could cause a considerable performance impact, and is not '.
-    'strictly necessary due to the fact that the Lexers should have '.
-    'ensured that all the UTF-8 strings were well-formed.  Note that '.
-    'the configuration value is only read at the beginning of '.
-    'generateFromTokens.'
-);
-HTMLPurifier_ConfigSchema::defineAlias('Core', 'CleanUTF8DuringGeneration', 'Output', 'EnableRedundantUTF8Cleaning');
-
 HTMLPurifier_ConfigSchema::define(
     'Output', 'CommentScriptContents', true, 'bool',
     'Determines whether or not HTML Purifier should attempt to fix up '.
@@ -56,12 +42,6 @@ HTMLPurifier_ConfigSchema::defineAlias('Core', 'TidyFormat', 'Output', 'TidyForm
 class HTMLPurifier_Generator
 {
     
-    /**
-     * Bool cache of %Output.EnableRedundantUTF8Cleaning
-     * @private
-     */
-    var $_clean_utf8 = false;
-    
     /**
      * Bool cache of %HTML.XHTML
      * @private
@@ -89,7 +69,6 @@ class HTMLPurifier_Generator
     function generateFromTokens($tokens, $config, &$context) {
         $html = '';
         if (!$config) $config = HTMLPurifier_Config::createDefault();
-        $this->_clean_utf8  = $config->get('Output', 'EnableRedundantUTF8Cleaning');
         $this->_scriptFix   = $config->get('Output', 'CommentScriptContents');
         
         $doctype = $config->getDoctype();
@@ -204,7 +183,6 @@ class HTMLPurifier_Generator
      * @return String escaped data.
      */
     function escape($string) {
-        if ($this->_clean_utf8) $string = HTMLPurifier_Lexer::cleanUTF8($string);
         return htmlspecialchars($string, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
     }
     
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/Strategy/FixNesting.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/Strategy/FixNesting.php
index 08f90756..bed1818a 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/Strategy/FixNesting.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/Strategy/FixNesting.php
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class HTMLPurifier_Strategy_FixNesting extends HTMLPurifier_Strategy
         $tokens[] = new HTMLPurifier_Token_End($parent_name);
         
         // setup the context variables
-        $is_inline = false; // reference var that we alter
+        $is_inline = $definition->info_parent_def->descendants_are_inline;
         $context->register('IsInline', $is_inline);
         
         //####################################################################//
diff --git a/tests/HTMLPurifier/ElementDefTest.php b/tests/HTMLPurifier/ElementDefTest.php
index 6ac7b521..23ef6e17 100644
--- a/tests/HTMLPurifier/ElementDefTest.php
+++ b/tests/HTMLPurifier/ElementDefTest.php
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class HTMLPurifier_ElementDefTest extends UnitTestCase
             'old' => true,
             'removed-old' => true
         );
-        $def1->descendants_are_inline = $overloaded_old;
+        $def1->descendants_are_inline = false;
         $def1->excludes = array(
             'old' => true,
             'removed-old' => true
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ class HTMLPurifier_ElementDefTest extends UnitTestCase
             'new' => true,
             'removed-old' => false
         );
-        $def2->descendants_are_inline = $overloaded_new;
+        $def2->descendants_are_inline = true;
         $def2->excludes = array(
             'new' => true,
             'removed-old' => false
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ class HTMLPurifier_ElementDefTest extends UnitTestCase
             'old' => true,
             'new' => true
         ));
-        $this->assertIdentical($def1->descendants_are_inline, $overloaded_new);
+        $this->assertIdentical($def1->descendants_are_inline, true);
         $this->assertIdentical($def1->excludes, array(
             'old' => true,
             'new' => true