Unknown column 'node.nid' in 'on clause' query - taxonomy link

I upgraded from D4.6 to D6.12 last year. Site has been offline until now. Just noticed that anonymous gets errors (see below) when they click on a taxonomy term associated with a node. I updated views to 2.10 but that didn't resolve it. Since it is pre-D6.14, the distinct patch doesnt fit as a solution. I can't go to PHP5.x just yet and D6.16 doesnt seem to play nice on PHP4.x.

What I find interesting is, the taxonomy link should work without calling Views, right? So why is the views module being blamed?

Does anyone have any ideas or tips on how to resolve this?

* user warning: Unknown column 'node.nid' in 'on clause' query: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (SELECT DISTINCT(node.nid) AS nid FROM node node WHERE (node.status <> 0 OR (node.uid = 0 AND 0 <> 0) OR 0 = 1) AND (node.vid IN ( SELECT tn.vid FROM term_node tn INNER JOIN node_access na ON na.nid = node.nid LEFT JOIN node n ON node.nid = n.nid WHERE (na.grant_view >= 1 AND ((na.gid = 0 AND na.realm = 'all') OR (na.gid = 0 AND na.realm = 'og_public'))) AND ((n.moderate != 1)) AND ( tn.tid = 11 )) )) count_alias in /home/foo/bar.com/html/sites/all/modules/views/includes/view.inc on line 745.

* user warning: Unknown column 'node.nid' in 'on clause' query: SELECT DISTINCT(node.nid) AS nid, node.sticky AS node_sticky, node.created AS node_created FROM node node WHERE (node.status <> 0 OR (node.uid = 0 AND 0 <> 0) OR 0 = 1) AND (node.vid IN ( SELECT tn.vid FROM term_node tn INNER JOIN node_access na ON na.nid = node.nid LEFT JOIN node n ON node.nid = n.nid WHERE (na.grant_view >= 1 AND ((na.gid = 0 AND na.realm = 'all') OR (na.gid = 0 AND na.realm = 'og_public'))) AND ((n.moderate != 1)) AND ( tn.tid = 11 )) )ORDER BY node_sticky DESC, node_created DESC LIMIT 0, 10 in /home/foo/bar.com/html/sites/all/modules/views/includes/view.inc on line 771.