diff --git a/app/lib/AudioPlayer.coffee b/app/lib/AudioPlayer.coffee
index 8f71d50e2..7208bd20e 100644
--- a/app/lib/AudioPlayer.coffee
+++ b/app/lib/AudioPlayer.coffee
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class AudioPlayer extends CocoClass
 
   playInterfaceSound: (name, volume=1) ->
     filename = "/file/interface/#{name}#{@ext}"
-    if filename of cache and createjs.Sound.loadComplete filename
+    if @hasLoadedSound filename
       @playSound name, volume
     else
       @preloadInterfaceSounds [name] unless filename of cache
@@ -89,15 +89,23 @@ class AudioPlayer extends CocoClass
 
   playSound: (name, volume=1, delay=0, pos=null) ->
     return console.error 'Trying to play empty sound?' unless name
-    audioOptions = {volume: (me.get('volume') ? 1) * volume, delay: delay}
+    audioOptions = {volume: volume, delay: delay}
     filename = if _.string.startsWith(name, '/file/') then name else '/file/' + name
-    unless (filename of cache) and createjs.Sound.loadComplete filename
+    unless @hasLoadedSound filename
       @soundsToPlayWhenLoaded[name] = audioOptions.volume
     audioOptions = @applyPanning audioOptions, pos if @camera and pos
     instance = createjs.Sound.play name, audioOptions
+    # For some reason, individual sound volume control doesn't work any more.
+    # I tried updating to SoundJS NEXT on 2014-09-10, but couldn't get any sounds to play with that one.
+    #console.log 'got instance with volume', instance.volume, instance._volume, instance.gainNode?.gain.value
     instance
 
-#  # TODO: load Interface sounds somehow, somewhere, somewhen
+  hasLoadedSound: (filename, name) ->
+    return false unless filename of cache
+    return false unless createjs.Sound.loadComplete filename
+    true
+
+  # TODO: load Interface sounds somehow, somewhere, somewhen
 
   preloadSoundReference: (sound) ->
     name = @nameForSoundReference sound
diff --git a/app/schemas/subscriptions/tome.coffee b/app/schemas/subscriptions/tome.coffee
index d248b044f..3f20ebe78 100644
--- a/app/schemas/subscriptions/tome.coffee
+++ b/app/schemas/subscriptions/tome.coffee
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ module.exports =
 
   'tome:palette-updated': c.object {title: 'Palette Updated', description: 'Published when the spell palette has just been updated.'},
     thangID: {type: 'string'}
-    entryGroups: {type: 'object', additionalProperties: {type: 'string'}}
+    entryGroups: {type: 'string'}
 
   'tome:palette-hovered': c.object {title: 'Palette Hovered', description: 'Published when you hover over a Thang in the spell palette', required: ['thang', 'prop', 'entry']},
     thang: {type: 'object'}
diff --git a/app/views/play/level/LevelPlaybackView.coffee b/app/views/play/level/LevelPlaybackView.coffee
index fcf691500..8ffb10607 100644
--- a/app/views/play/level/LevelPlaybackView.coffee
+++ b/app/views/play/level/LevelPlaybackView.coffee
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ module.exports = class LevelPlaybackView extends CocoView
         @slideCount = 0
         @wasPlaying = @playing
         Backbone.Mediator.publish 'level:set-playing', {playing: false}
-        Backbone.Mediator.publish 'audio-player:play-sound', trigger: 'playback-scrub-start', volume: 1
+        Backbone.Mediator.publish 'audio-player:play-sound', trigger: 'playback-scrub-start', volume: 0.5
 
       stop: (event, ui) =>
         return if @shouldIgnore()
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ module.exports = class LevelPlaybackView extends CocoView
           Backbone.Mediator.publish 'level:set-playing', {playing: false}
           @$el.find('.scrubber-handle').effect('bounce', {times: 2})
         else
-          Backbone.Mediator.publish 'audio-player:play-sound', trigger: 'playback-scrub-end', volume: 1
+          Backbone.Mediator.publish 'audio-player:play-sound', trigger: 'playback-scrub-end', volume: 0.5
     )
 
   getScrubRatio: ->
diff --git a/server/users/User.coffee b/server/users/User.coffee
index db1e76143..abdd629a0 100644
--- a/server/users/User.coffee
+++ b/server/users/User.coffee
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ UserSchema.statics.statsMapping =
     'level.component': 'stats.levelComponentMiscPatches'
     'level.system': 'stats.levelSystemMiscPatches'
     'thang.type': 'stats.thangTypeMiscPatches'
-    
+
 UserSchema.statics.incrementStat = (id, statName, done, inc=1) ->
   id = mongoose.Types.ObjectId id if _.isString id
   @findById id, (err, user) ->
@@ -184,8 +184,9 @@ UserSchema.statics.hashPassword = (password) ->
   shasum.digest('hex')
 
 UserSchema.statics.privateProperties = [
-  'permissions', 'email', 'firstName', 'lastName', 'gender', 'facebookID',
-  'gplusID', 'music', 'volume', 'aceConfig', 'employerAt', 'signedEmployerAgreement'
+  'permissions', 'email', 'mailChimp', 'firstName', 'lastName', 'gender', 'facebookID',
+  'gplusID', 'music', 'volume', 'aceConfig', 'employerAt', 'signedEmployerAgreement',
+  'emailSubscriptions', 'emails', 'activity'
 ]
 UserSchema.statics.jsonSchema = jsonschema
 UserSchema.statics.editableProperties = [