SQL Error when usign Distinct

Hello,
I'm trying to use the "Distinct" feature but even with a very simplistic setup I get the following error message:

    * user warning: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'DISTINCT(node.nid) FROM node node ) AS count_alias' at line 1 query: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (SELECT DISTINCT(node.nid) AS DISTINCT(node.nid) FROM node node ) AS count_alias in sites\all\modules\views\includes\view.inc on line 652.
    * user warning: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'DISTINCT(node.nid) FROM node node LIMIT 0, 10' at line 1 query: SELECT DISTINCT(node.nid) AS DISTINCT(node.nid) FROM node node LIMIT 0, 10 in sites\all\modules\views\includes\view.inc on line 677.

My view looks like this:

$view = new view;
$view->name = 'test';
$view->description = 'test view';
$view->tag = '';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE;
/* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */ $handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Defaults', 'default');
$handler->override_option('fields', array('nid' => array('label' => 'Nid', 'link_to_node' => 0, 'exclude' => 0, 'id' => 'nid', 'table' => 'node', 'field' => 'nid', 'relationship' => 'none',),));
$handler->override_option('access', array('type' => 'none', 'role' => array(), 'perm' => '',));
$handler->override_option('distinct', 1);

This view of course doesn't actually produce any duplicated values, but I get the same errors with more complex views as well...