Flexinode problem ? Events, locations, oh my.

After following the steps 1-4 in http://drupal.org/comment/reply/52970 on a mostly new install (played around with a few modules), 4.7.3 drupal - with events, locations, flexinode installed, I get the following error when trying to add an event (step 4).

* warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/trib/modules/flexinode/flexinode.module on line 571.

* 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 'FROM node n LEFT JOIN flexinode_data flexinode_1 ON n.nid = flexinode_1.nid AND ' at line 1 query: SELECT FROM node n LEFT JOIN flexinode_data flexinode_1 ON n.nid = flexinode_1.nid AND flexinode_1.field_id = 1 WHERE n.nid = 6 in /var/www/trib/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.

The code block in questions reads as follows:

foreach ($ctype->fields as $field) {
$items = flexinode_invoke('form', $field, $node);
// if anyone knows a better way to pass back an array and key value at the same time without passing the $form by
// ref I would like to know ;)
foreach($items as $key => $item) {
$form[$key] = $item;
}
}

Not sure if this is my newness to drupal or an underlying bug. Tks.