diff --git a/modules/storm/stormtask/stormtask.admin.inc b/modules/storm/stormtask/stormtask.admin.inc
index 59a793d..1e6a253 100644
--- a/modules/storm/stormtask/stormtask.admin.inc
+++ b/modules/storm/stormtask/stormtask.admin.inc
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ function stormtask_tasks_filter_reset($form, &$form_state) {
 
 function _stormtask_project_tasks_js($project_nid) {
   $tree = _stormtask_get_tree($project_nid);
-  $tasks = _stormtask_plain_tree($tree);
+  $tasks = _stormtask_plain_tree($tree, TRUE);
   print drupal_to_js($tasks);
   exit();
 }
diff --git a/modules/storm/stormtask/stormtask.module b/modules/storm/stormtask/stormtask.module
index 4bff260..cf60160 100644
--- a/modules/storm/stormtask/stormtask.module
+++ b/modules/storm/stormtask/stormtask.module
@@ -1061,11 +1061,11 @@ function _stormtask_get_tree($project_nid, $parent_nid = 0, $depth = -1, $max_de
   return isset($tree) ? $tree : array();
 }
 
-function _stormtask_plain_tree($tree) {
+function _stormtask_plain_tree($tree, $forjs = FALSE) {
   $rows = array();
   foreach ($tree as $item) {
-    // Using the space character to preserve the order of tree elements:
-    $nid = " $item->nid";
+    // Using the space char to preserve the order in Javascript loaded trees:
+    $nid = $forjs ? " $item->nid" : $item->nid;
     $title = htmlspecialchars_decode(check_plain($item->title));
     if ($item->stepno) $title = check_plain($item->stepno) .' '. $title;
     if ($nid) $rows[$nid] = str_repeat('--', $item->depth) .' '. $title;