diff --git a/include/chaiscript/dispatchkit/boxed_cast.hpp b/include/chaiscript/dispatchkit/boxed_cast.hpp
index ee7f739..bed5a51 100644
--- a/include/chaiscript/dispatchkit/boxed_cast.hpp
+++ b/include/chaiscript/dispatchkit/boxed_cast.hpp
@@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ namespace chaiscript
     try {
       return detail::Cast_Helper<Type>::cast(bv);
     } catch (const boost::bad_any_cast &) {
+
+#ifdef BOOST_MSVC
+      //Thank you MSVC, yes we know that a constant value is being used in the if
+      // statment in THIS VERSION of the template instantiation
+#pragma warning(push)
+#pragma warning(disable : 4127)
+#endif
+
       if (boost::is_polymorphic<typename Stripped_Type<Type>::type>::value)
       {
         try {
@@ -50,6 +58,12 @@ namespace chaiscript
         // attempted dynamic_cast
         throw bad_boxed_cast(bv.get_type_info(), typeid(Type));
       }
+
+#ifdef BOOST_MSVC
+#pragma warning(pop)
+#endif
+
+
     } 
   }
 
diff --git a/include/chaiscript/dispatchkit/dynamic_cast_conversion.hpp b/include/chaiscript/dispatchkit/dynamic_cast_conversion.hpp
index 0488147..5da9839 100644
--- a/include/chaiscript/dispatchkit/dynamic_cast_conversion.hpp
+++ b/include/chaiscript/dispatchkit/dynamic_cast_conversion.hpp
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ namespace chaiscript
     class Dynamic_Conversions
     {
       public:
-        static Dynamic_Conversions &get()
+        static inline Dynamic_Conversions &get()
         {
           static Dynamic_Conversions obj;
           return obj;
@@ -129,8 +129,15 @@ namespace chaiscript
         template<typename Base, typename Derived>
         static boost::shared_ptr<Dynamic_Conversion> create()
         {
-          return boost::shared_ptr<Dynamic_Conversion>(new Dynamic_Conversion_Impl<Base, Derived>());
+          boost::shared_ptr<Dynamic_Conversion> conversion(new Dynamic_Conversion_Impl<Base, Derived>());
 
+          /// \todo this is a hack and a kludge. The idea is to make sure that
+          ///       the conversion is registered both in the module's notion of the static conversion object
+          ///       and in the global notion of the static conversion object
+          ///       someday this will almost certainly have to change. Maybe it is time for ChaiScript
+          ///       to become a library?
+          Dynamic_Conversions::get().add_conversion(conversion);
+          return conversion;
         }
 
         template<typename InItr>
diff --git a/include/chaiscript/dispatchkit/proxy_functions.hpp b/include/chaiscript/dispatchkit/proxy_functions.hpp
index a60ab89..bea6c67 100644
--- a/include/chaiscript/dispatchkit/proxy_functions.hpp
+++ b/include/chaiscript/dispatchkit/proxy_functions.hpp
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 namespace chaiscript
 {
-  class Boxed_POD_Value;
+  struct Boxed_POD_Value;
 
   /**
    * Helper for building a list of parameters for calling a Proxy_Function