diff -urp taxonomy_breadcrumb/taxonomy_breadcrumb.inc taxonomy_breadcrumb.new/taxonomy_breadcrumb.inc
--- taxonomy_breadcrumb/taxonomy_breadcrumb.inc	2010-03-30 18:46:35.000000000 -0700
+++ taxonomy_breadcrumb.new/taxonomy_breadcrumb.inc	2010-04-02 12:15:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -89,6 +89,16 @@ function _taxonomy_breadcrumb_node_get_l
 }
 
 /**
+* return the primary id for the primary term in a format that taxonomy breadcrumb will understand
+* based on ($node) since it doesn't not make since to reload the object into memory since it was already created
+* and running a query for something we already have does not make sense
+*/
+function _taxonomy_breadcrumb_node_get_primary_term($node) {
+	$term = (object)array('tid' => $node->primaryterm);	
+	return ($term);
+}
+		
+/**
  * Return the administrator defined vocabulary path for a given vocabulary
  * ($vid).  If a path doesn't exist, NULL is returned.
  */
diff -urp taxonomy_breadcrumb/taxonomy_breadcrumb.module taxonomy_breadcrumb.new/taxonomy_breadcrumb.module
--- taxonomy_breadcrumb/taxonomy_breadcrumb.module	2010-03-30 18:46:35.000000000 -0700
+++ taxonomy_breadcrumb.new/taxonomy_breadcrumb.module	2010-04-02 12:11:40.000000000 -0700
@@ -76,7 +76,11 @@ function taxonomy_breadcrumb_nodeapi(&$n
     if ($in_list == variable_get('taxonomy_breadcrumb_include_nodes', 0) ) {
 
       // Extract lightest term from lightest vocabulary assosciated with node.
-      $term = _taxonomy_breadcrumb_node_get_lightest_term($node);
+	    if(isset($node->primaryterm)) {
+		    $term = _taxonomy_breadcrumb_node_get_primary_term($node);
+	    } else {
+		    $term = _taxonomy_breadcrumb_node_get_lightest_term($node);
+	    }
       $breadcrumb = _taxonomy_breadcrumb_generate_breadcrumb($term->tid);
       if (variable_get('taxonomy_breadcrumb_include_node_title', FALSE)) {
         $breadcrumb[] = check_plain($node->title);