diff --git a/src/app/FAKE/CommandlineParams.fs b/src/app/FAKE/CommandlineParams.fs
index dffaee33860..b2b8e331799 100644
--- a/src/app/FAKE/CommandlineParams.fs
+++ b/src/app/FAKE/CommandlineParams.fs
@@ -4,18 +4,35 @@ open Fake
 
 let printAllParams() = printfn "FAKE.exe [buildScript] [Target] Variable1=Value1 Variable2=Value2 ... "
 
+(* 
+    This is a set of flags that exist in code lower in the target processing that MUST be normalized to a certain form. This is necessary because
+    If any old styole variables are present in the FAKE invocation, Argu parsing will fail and we will not have parsed out those commands correctly
+    from the overall command line.
+
+    You can typically find usages of 'hasBuildParam' in this codebase to find places where these values are required.
+*)
+let specialFlags = 
+    [
+        "-st", "single-target"
+        "--single-target", "single-target" 
+        "-pd", "details"
+        "--print-details", "details"
+    ] |> Map.ofList
+
 let parseArgs cmdArgs = 
-    let splitter = [| '=' |]
-    let split (arg:string) = 
-      let pos = arg.IndexOfAny splitter 
-      [| arg.Substring(0, pos); arg.Substring(pos + 1, arg.Length - pos - 1) |]
+    let (|KeyValue|Flag|TargetName|) ((i,arg) : int * string) =
+        if i = 0 then TargetName arg
+        else
+            match arg.IndexOf '=' with
+            | -1 -> Flag arg
+            | i -> KeyValue (arg.Substring(0, i), arg.Substring(i + 1, arg.Length - i - 1))
+
     cmdArgs
     |> Seq.skip 1
-    |> Seq.mapi (fun (i : int) (arg : string) -> 
-           if arg.Contains "=" then 
-               let s = split arg
-               if s.[0] = "logfile" then addXmlListener s.[1]
-               s.[0], s.[1]
-           else if i = 0 then "target", arg
-           else arg, "true")
+    |> Seq.mapi (fun i a -> match (i, a) with 
+                            | TargetName t -> "target", t
+                            | Flag f when Map.containsKey f specialFlags -> Map.find f specialFlags, "true"
+                            | Flag f -> f, "true"
+                            | KeyValue (k,v) when k = "logfile" -> addXmlListener v; (k,v)
+                            | KeyValue kvp -> kvp )
     |> Seq.toList
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/app/FAKE/Program.fs b/src/app/FAKE/Program.fs
index f680f70d1b0..a475798b8d4 100644
--- a/src/app/FAKE/Program.fs
+++ b/src/app/FAKE/Program.fs
@@ -132,15 +132,16 @@ try
             match Boot.ParseCommandLine(cmdArgs) with
             | None ->
                 let buildScriptArg = if cmdArgs.Length > 1 && cmdArgs.[1].EndsWith ".fsx" then cmdArgs.[1] else Seq.head buildScripts
-                let fakeArgs = cmdArgs |> Array.filter (fun x -> x.StartsWith "-d:" = false)
-                let fsiArgs = cmdArgs |> Array.filter (fun x -> x.StartsWith "-d:") |> Array.toList
-                let args = CommandlineParams.parseArgs (fakeArgs |> Seq.filter ((<>) buildScriptArg) |> Seq.filter ((<>) "details"))
+                let fsiArgs, fakeArgs = cmdArgs |> Array.partition (fun x -> x.StartsWith "-d:")
+                let args = CommandlineParams.parseArgs (fakeArgs |> Seq.filter ((<>) buildScriptArg))
 
                 traceStartBuild()
-                let printDetails = containsParam "details" cmdArgs
+                let printDetails = args |> List.exists (fst >> ((=) "details"))
+                let argsMinusDetails = args |> List.filter (fst >> ((=) "details"))
+                let fsiArgsList = fsiArgs |> Seq.toList
                 if printDetails then
                     printEnvironment cmdArgs args
-                if not (runBuildScript printDetails buildScriptArg fsiArgs args true) then Environment.ExitCode <- 1
+                if not (runBuildScript printDetails buildScriptArg fsiArgsList argsMinusDetails true) then Environment.ExitCode <- 1
                 else if printDetails then log "Ready."
             | Some handler ->
                 handler.Interact()