Node reference fields- This post can't be referenced

I have a site with CCK and i18n. Some of my node types have node reference fields in them. My i18n settings are set to "All content. No language conditions apply". When I go to translate a node from English to French for example, when I submit the form, I get the following error: "Featured media pick 1 : This post can't be referenced" Basically my new FR node is trying to reference EN nodes. Node reference fields are doing a validate check which i18n modifies the SQL for:

Line 452 nodereference.module

$result = db_queryd(db_rewrite_sql("SELECT n.nid, n.title AS node_title, n.type AS node_type FROM {node} n WHERE ". $related_clause ." ORDER BY n.title, n.type"), $args);

i18n overwrites this with i18n_db_rewrite_sql(), calling i18n_db_rewrite_where() with $mode = translate. Here, even though I've explicitly set i18n to use all content, it's still forcing language content:

    case 'translation':
      return "$alias.language ='".i18n_selection_mode('params')."' OR $alias.language ='' OR $alias.language IS NULL" ;

I guess I'm unclear on why translation options should be a different case than what was set in the admin settings- at the very least shouldn't this check variable_get('i18n_selection_mode', 'simple') to see if it should use languages should be checked? I'd be happy to offer a patch, but I'm guessing you're trying to accomplish something that I'm not quite catching