diff --git a/extensions/webmail/templates/index.html b/extensions/webmail/templates/index.html
index ef364a67d..0025340b6 100644
--- a/extensions/webmail/templates/index.html
+++ b/extensions/webmail/templates/index.html
@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ ul.visible {
                         "text-align" : "center",
                         "height" : "25px",
                         "border" : "1px solid #333", 
-                        "background" : "white"})
+                        "background" : "white",
+                        "z-index" : 3})
             .setStyles(item.getPosition())
             .inject(document.body);
           block.set("html", "Moving " + selectedRows.length + " messages"); 
diff --git a/lib/__init__.py b/lib/__init__.py
index a7eff6145..1db957d45 100644
--- a/lib/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/__init__.py
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ from django.template.loader import render_to_string
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
 from mailng.lib import parameters
 
-def exec_cmd(cmd):
+def exec_cmd(cmd, **kwargs):
     import subprocess
 
-    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, **kwargs)
     output = p.communicate()[0]
     return p.returncode, output
 
diff --git a/lib/templatetags/libextras.py b/lib/templatetags/libextras.py
index 692c15423..4e76f0dc2 100644
--- a/lib/templatetags/libextras.py
+++ b/lib/templatetags/libextras.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import os
+from django.conf import settings
 from django import template
 from mailng.lib import exec_cmd
 
@@ -6,13 +7,13 @@ register = template.Library()
 
 @register.simple_tag
 def get_version():
-    if os.path.isdir(".hg"):
+    if os.path.isdir("%s/.hg" % settings.MAILNG_DIR):
         version = "dev-"
-        code, output = exec_cmd("hg id -i")
+        code, output = exec_cmd("hg id -i", cwd=settings.MAILNG_DIR)
         version += output.rstrip()
         return version
-    elif os.path.exists("VERSION"):
-        code, output = exec_cmd("cat VERSION")
+    elif os.path.exists("%s/VERSION" % settings.MAILNG_DIR):
+        code, output = exec_cmd("cat %s/VERSION" % settings.MAILNG_DIR)
         return output.rstrip()
     else:
         return "Unknown"