diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index eebc4ff28..558b5d0f8 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -291,11 +291,11 @@ distributed separately and can be downloaded from:
 
 Load the file with this command:
 
-  bp_load_gff.pl -d yeast -fasta yeast.fasta.gz </dev/null
+  load_gff.pl -d yeast -fasta yeast.fasta.gz </dev/null
 
 (or, if you are on a windows system:
 
-  bp_load_gff.pl -d yeast -fasta yeast.fasta.gz
+  load_gff.pl -d yeast -fasta yeast.fasta.gz
 
  and hit ^Z when the script pauses.)
 
@@ -333,10 +333,13 @@ scripts/Bio-DB-GFF directory if you didn't install them directly.
 
 They are:
 
-  bp_process_gadfly.pl     For FlyBase D. melanogaster flat files
-  bp_process_ncbi_human.pl For human annotations from NCBI
-  bp_process_sgd.pl        For SGD S. cerevisiae flat files
-  bp_process_wormbase.pl   For WormBase C. elegans flat files
+  process_gadfly.pl     For FlyBase D. melanogaster flat files
+  process_ncbi_human.pl For human annotations from NCBI
+  process_sgd.pl        For SGD S. cerevisiae flat files
+  process_wormbase.pl   For WormBase C. elegans flat files
+
+In Bioperl 1.3, these scripts are named bp_process_gadfly.pl, and so
+forth.
 
 Run the script with the -h option to get some data-specific help:
 
diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index 8a8db7f1e..49baf6a49 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ WriteMakefile(
 				 'bin/process_wormbase.PLS' => 'bin/process_wormbase.pl',
 				 'bin/process_ncbi_human.PLS' => 'bin/process_ncbi_human.pl',
 				 'bin/ucsc_genes2gff.PLS' => 'bin/ucsc_genes2gff.pl',
+				 'bin/load_genbank.PLS' => 'bin/load_genbank.pl',
 				 'install_util/gbrowse_ppm_install.PLS' => 'install_util/gbrowse_ppm_install.pl',
 				 'cgi-bin/gbrowse.PLS'  => 'cgi-bin/gbrowse',
 				 'cgi-bin/gbrowse_syn.PLS'  => 'cgi-bin/gbrowse_syn',
diff --git a/bin/load_genbank.PLS b/bin/load_genbank.PLS
index eb8c3b2a7..b53700c61 100644
--- a/bin/load_genbank.PLS
+++ b/bin/load_genbank.PLS
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ $Config{startperl}
 # In the following, perl variables are not expanded during extraction.
 
 print OUT <<'!NO!SUBS!';
-# $Id: load_genbank.PLS,v 1.3 2003-07-17 18:47:57 scottcain Exp $
+# $Id: load_genbank.PLS,v 1.4 2003-07-28 17:06:12 lstein Exp $
 use strict;
 use Bio::DB::GFF;
 use Getopt::Long;
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ load_genbank.pl - Load a Bio::DB::GFF database from GENBANK files.
   % load_genbank.pl -d genbank -f localfile.gb
   % load_genbank.pl -d genbank -a AP003256
 
+NOTE: The script bp_genbank2gff.pl in the BioPerl distribution is the
+same as this script.
+
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 This script loads a Bio::DB::GFF database with the features contained
@@ -67,6 +70,8 @@ L<Bio::DB::GFF>, L<bulk_load_gff.pl>, L<load_gff.pl>
 
 Scott Cain, cain@cshl.org
 
+Lincoln Stein, lstein@cshl.org
+
 Copyright (c) 2003 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
 
 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -96,9 +101,6 @@ sub new {
 sub load_gff_line {
   my ($self,$options) = @_;
   # synthesize GFF3-compatible line
-
-  $options->{score} = '.' unless $options->{score};
-
   my @attributes;
   if (my $parent = $options->{gname}) {
      push @attributes,"Parent=".escape($parent) unless $options->{method} =~ /^(mRNA|gene)$/;