diff -Naur lammps-20Nov08/src/USER-ACKLAND/README lammps-21Nov08/src/USER-ACKLAND/README
--- lammps-20Nov08/src/USER-ACKLAND/README	2007-10-03 10:28:14.000000000 -0600
+++ lammps-21Nov08/src/USER-ACKLAND/README	2008-11-21 09:22:54.000000000 -0700
@@ -16,3 +16,11 @@
 The output is a number with the following mapping:
 
 enum{UNKNOWN,BCC,FCC,HCP,ICO};
+
+or in other words:
+
+0 == UNKNOWN
+1 == BCC
+2 == FCC
+3 == HCP
+4 == ICO
diff -Naur lammps-20Nov08/src/lammps.cpp lammps-21Nov08/src/lammps.cpp
--- lammps-20Nov08/src/lammps.cpp	2008-01-17 10:01:57.000000000 -0700
+++ lammps-21Nov08/src/lammps.cpp	2008-11-21 09:22:43.000000000 -0700
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 
   while (iarg < narg) {
     if (strcmp(arg[iarg],"-partition") == 0) {
-      if (iarg+1 > narg) 
+      if (iarg+2 > narg) 
 	error->universe_all("Invalid command-line argument");
       iarg++;
       while (iarg < narg && arg[iarg][0] != '-') {
diff -Naur lammps-20Nov08/src/pair_hybrid.cpp lammps-21Nov08/src/pair_hybrid.cpp
--- lammps-20Nov08/src/pair_hybrid.cpp	2008-08-13 08:39:45.000000000 -0600
+++ lammps-21Nov08/src/pair_hybrid.cpp	2008-11-21 09:22:04.000000000 -0700
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@
   // allocate each sub-style and call its settings() with subset of args
   // define subset of args for a sub-style by skipping numeric args
   // one exception is 1st arg of style "table", which is non-numeric word
+  // one exception is 1st two args of style "lj/coul", which are non-numeric
+  // need a better way to skip these exceptions
 
   nstyles = 0;
   i = 0;
@@ -227,6 +229,7 @@
     strcpy(keywords[nstyles],arg[i]);
     istyle = i;
     if (strcmp(arg[i],"table") == 0) i++;
+    if (strcmp(arg[i],"lj/coul") == 0) i += 2;
     i++;
     while (i < narg && !isalpha(arg[i][0])) i++;
     styles[nstyles]->settings(i-istyle-1,&arg[istyle+1]);