diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/clientUpdate.js b/app/assets/javascripts/clientUpdate.js
index 8ea189f5a..5a6d873e8 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/clientUpdate.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/clientUpdate.js
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 
         // if the current version doesn't not match the server version, attempt to do an upgrade
         function shouldUpdate(currentVersion, version) {
-            if(version == null || version == "") {
+            if(version === undefined || version == null || version == "") {
                 return false;
             }
             else {
diff --git a/config/environments/test.rb b/config/environments/test.rb
index 2f64022c5..217f3b733 100644
--- a/config/environments/test.rb
+++ b/config/environments/test.rb
@@ -51,5 +51,9 @@ SampleApp::Application.configure do
   else
     config.websocket_gateway_enable = false
   end
+
+  # this is totally awful and silly; the reason this exists is so that if you upload an artifact
+  # through jam-admin, then jam-web can point users at it.  I think 99% of devs won't even see or care about this config, and 0% of users
+  config.jam_admin_root_url = 'http://localhost:3333'
 end
 
diff --git a/spec/requests/artifacts_api_spec.rb b/spec/requests/artifacts_api_spec.rb
index 93eb54529..5c785cd19 100644
--- a/spec/requests/artifacts_api_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/artifacts_api_spec.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ describe "Artifact API ", :type => :api do
     it "matches an artifact" do
       get '/api/versioncheck.json', { :os=>'Win32', :product=>'JamClient'}
       last_response.status.should eql(200)
-      JSON.parse(last_response.body).should eql({ "version" => @artifact.version, "uri" => @artifact.uri.url, "size" => @artifact.size, "sha1" => @artifact.sha1})
+      JSON.parse(last_response.body).should eql({ "version" => @artifact.version, "uri" => Rails.application.config.jam_admin_root_url +  @artifact.uri.url, "size" => @artifact.size, "sha1" => @artifact.sha1})
     end
 
     it "matches no artifact" do
diff --git a/spec/requests/music_sessions_api_spec.rb b/spec/requests/music_sessions_api_spec.rb
index 29a6d9d6c..508b5f67d 100644
--- a/spec/requests/music_sessions_api_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/music_sessions_api_spec.rb
@@ -561,14 +561,9 @@ describe "Music Session API ", :type => :api do
     music_session = FactoryGirl.create(:music_session, :creator => user, :description => "My Session")
     client = FactoryGirl.create(:connection, :user => user)
 
-
-
-    puts MusicSessionHistory.find_by_music_session_id(music_session.id)
-
     put "/api/sessions/#{music_session.id}/perf.json", "CONTENT_TYPE" => "application/json"
     last_response.status.should == 302
     redirect = last_response.headers["Location"]
-    p redirect
 
     put redirect + '.json', "CONTENT_TYPE" => 'application/json'
     last_response.status.should == 200