diff --git a/src/java/com/threerings/io/BasicStreamers.java b/src/java/com/threerings/io/BasicStreamers.java
index 0d3548810..d4937e780 100644
--- a/src/java/com/threerings/io/BasicStreamers.java
+++ b/src/java/com/threerings/io/BasicStreamers.java
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ public class BasicStreamers
         new DoubleArrayStreamer(),
         new ObjectArrayStreamer(),
         new ListStreamer(),
-        new ListStreamer(),
+        new ListStreamer(),// Second ListStreamer lines up with ArrayList above
     };
 
     /** Streams {@link Boolean} instances. */
diff --git a/src/java/com/threerings/io/FieldMarshaller.java b/src/java/com/threerings/io/FieldMarshaller.java
index 37cb04a2e..708b7daf5 100644
--- a/src/java/com/threerings/io/FieldMarshaller.java
+++ b/src/java/com/threerings/io/FieldMarshaller.java
@@ -241,11 +241,10 @@ public abstract class FieldMarshaller
         };
         _marshallers.put(Streamable.class, gmarsh);
 
-        // use the same generic marshaller for fields declared to by type Object or Object[] with
-        // the expectation that they will contain only primitive types or Streamables; the runtime
-        // will fail informatively if we attempt to store non-Streamable objects in that field
+        // use the same generic marshaller for fields declared as Object with the expectation that
+        // they will contain only primitive types or Streamables; the runtime will fail
+        // informatively if we attempt to store non-Streamable objects in that field
         _marshallers.put(Object.class, gmarsh);
-        _marshallers.put(Object[].class, gmarsh);
 
         // create marshallers for the primitive types
         _marshallers.put(Boolean.TYPE, new FieldMarshaller() {