diff --git a/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/PresentsDObjectMgr.java b/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/PresentsDObjectMgr.java
index f78c9bffa..ddb01e87a 100644
--- a/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/PresentsDObjectMgr.java
+++ b/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/PresentsDObjectMgr.java
@@ -131,9 +131,6 @@ public class PresentsDObjectMgr
             }
         });
 
-        // also tell the report manager that we're providing the runqueue for it to do its business
-        repmgr.init(this);
-
         // register our event helpers
         registerEventHelpers();
     }
diff --git a/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/PresentsServer.java b/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/PresentsServer.java
index 96dc53526..1b75b65d3 100644
--- a/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/PresentsServer.java
+++ b/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/PresentsServer.java
@@ -258,9 +258,6 @@ public class PresentsServer
     /** Handles orderly initialization and shutdown of our managers, etc. */
     @Inject protected Lifecycle _lifecycle;
 
-    /** Handles generation of state of the server reports. */
-    @Inject protected ReportManager _repmgr;
-
     /** Used to invoke background tasks that should not be allowed to tie up the distributed object
      * manager thread (generally talking to databases and other relatively slow entities). */
     @Inject @MainInvoker protected Invoker _invoker;
diff --git a/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/ReportManager.java b/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/ReportManager.java
index 798f4a4c4..8d8ee22f1 100644
--- a/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/ReportManager.java
+++ b/src/java/com/threerings/presents/server/ReportManager.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ package com.threerings.presents.server;
 
 import com.google.common.collect.ArrayListMultimap;
 import com.google.common.collect.Multimap;
+import com.google.inject.Inject;
 import com.google.inject.Singleton;
 
 import com.samskivert.util.Interval;
@@ -62,12 +63,12 @@ public class ReportManager
     public static final String PROFILE_TYPE = "profile";
 
     /**
-     * Starts up our periodic report generation task on the supplied run queue.
+     * Starts up our periodic report generation task.
      */
-    public void init (RunQueue rqueue)
+    public void activatePeriodicReport ()
     {
         // queue up an interval which will generate reports
-        _reportInterval = new Interval(rqueue) {
+        _reportInterval = new Interval(_omgr) {
             @Override
             public void expired () {
                 logReport(LOG_REPORT_HEADER +
@@ -187,6 +188,9 @@ public class ReportManager
     /** Used to generate "state of server" reports. */
     protected Multimap<String, Reporter> _reporters = ArrayListMultimap.create();
 
+    // dependencies
+    @Inject protected PresentsDObjectMgr _omgr;
+
     /** The frequency with which we generate "state of server" reports. */
     protected static final long REPORT_INTERVAL = 15 * 60 * 1000L;