diff -u b/project_issue.install b/project_issue.install
--- b/project_issue.install
+++ b/project_issue.install
@@ -747,23 +747,23 @@
 }
 
 /**
- * Migrate users with notifications >= 50 projects to a per-user setting.
+ * Migrate users with notifications for >= 50 projects to a global setting.
  *
  * Since there never used to be a way to say "Send me e-mail notifications
  * for my own issues for all projects" many users have had to select this
  * option individually on a large number of projects. If a user is subscribed
  * to 50 or more projects at this notification level, remove all of those
- * per-project settings and just set their per-user default.
+ * per-project settings and just set their per-user global default.
  */
 function project_issue_update_6010() {
   $ret = array();
 
   // Find all the users with 50 or more projects configured to send e-mail for
-  // PROJECT_ISSUE_NOTIFICATION_OWN.
+  // "own issues".
   $uids = array();
-  $query = db_query("SELECT uid, COUNT(nid) project_count FROM {project_issue_notification_project} WHERE level = %d GROUP BY uid HAVING project_count >= 50", PROJECT_ISSUE_NOTIFICATION_OWN);
-  while ($account = db_fetch_object($query)) {
-    $uids[] = $account->uid;
+  $result = db_query("SELECT uid, COUNT(nid) AS project_count FROM {project_issue_notification_project} WHERE level = %d GROUP BY uid HAVING project_count >= 50", PROJECT_ISSUE_NOTIFICATION_OWN);
+  while ($uid = db_result($result)) {
+    $uids[] = $uid;
   }
 
   if (!empty($uids)) {