diff --git a/admin/index.php b/admin/index.php
index 213977e506..abc4984047 100755
--- a/admin/index.php
+++ b/admin/index.php
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 	*  Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your  *
 	*  option) any later version.                                              *
 	\**************************************************************************/
-
 	/* $Id$ */
 
 	$GLOBALS['phpgw_info'] = array();
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@
 				$GLOBALS['phpgw']->common->image($appname,'navbar','',True)
 			);
 
-			while(list($text,$url) = each($file))
+			while(is_array($file) && list($text,$url) = each($file))
 			{
 				section_item($url,lang($text));
 			}
diff --git a/preferences/index.php b/preferences/index.php
index c9ff94e920..a23296f3e2 100755
--- a/preferences/index.php
+++ b/preferences/index.php
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 	{
 		section_start($appname,$GLOBALS['phpgw']->common->image($appname,'navbar','',True));
 
-		while(list($text,$url) = each($file))
+		while(is_array($file) && list($text,$url) = each($file))
 		{
 			section_item($url,lang($text));
 		}