diff --git a/inxi b/inxi
index 1b7efd4..d97259a 100755
--- a/inxi
+++ b/inxi
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 ########################################################################
 ####  Script Name: inxi
-####  version: 0.8.6
+####  version: 0.8.7
 ####  Date: December 13 2008
 ########################################################################
 ####  inxi is a fork of infobash 3.02, the original bash sys info script by locsmif
@@ -303,6 +303,8 @@ error_handler()
 	exit $1
 }
 
+# note: this debugger is largely useless in its current condition, but
+# we'll leave this up for now. I dumped the all-up debugging variable
 # args: $1 - $@ debugging string text; $2 - type: missing-app/all-up
 script_debugger()
 {
@@ -318,13 +320,14 @@ script_debugger()
 				print_screen_output "${a_debug_buffer[$DEBUG_BUFFER_INDEX]}"
 			done
 			DEBUG_BUFFER_INDEX=0
+			print_screen_output "$1"
 		fi
-		print_screen_output "$@"
 	else
 		if [[ $B_DEBUG_FLOOD == 'true' && $DEBUG_BUFFER_INDEX -gt 10 ]];then
 			error_handler 2
+		else
+			a_debug_buffer[DEBUG_BUFFER_INDEX++]="$1"
 		fi
-		a_debug_buffer[DEBUG_BUFFER_INDEX++]="$@"
 	fi
 }