Installation errors in the last step -- Entity_API and taxonomy_menu

Its great that the distribution has been updated to D7.14.
The installation is fine with minor errors.

1. Failed install News and Events including the default content of these two modules.
2. The following errors are being displayed druing the last step.

Notice: Array to string conversion in EntityAPIControllerExportable->applyConditions() (line 625 of /document_root/openacademy-7.x-1.0-beta2/profiles/openacademy/modules/contrib/entity/includes/entity.controller.inc).

Upstream bug related to above error --- http://drupal.org/node/1514764

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in _taxonomy_menu_nodeapi_helper() (line 425 of //document_root/openacademy-7.x-1.0-beta2/profiles/openacademy/modules/contrib/taxonomy_menu/taxonomy_menu.module).

3. Post install errors -- upon visiting the Front page.

Notice: Array to string conversion in EntityAPIControllerExportable->applyConditions() (line 625 of /document_root/openacademy-7.x-1.0-beta2/profiles/openacademy/modules/contrib/entity/includes/entity.controller.inc).
Warning: Creating default object from empty value in panels_renderer_ipe->render_pane_content() (line 145 of /document_root/openacademy-7.x-1.0-beta2/profiles/openacademy/modules/contrib/panels/panels_ipe/plugins/display_renderers/panels_renderer_ipe.class.php).