diff --git a/src/components/main/layout/float.rs b/src/components/main/layout/float.rs
index 9681f6e1f64..d51ab0849a0 100644
--- a/src/components/main/layout/float.rs
+++ b/src/components/main/layout/float.rs
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ impl FloatFlowData {
         let flow = FloatFlow(self);
         for flow.each_child |child| {
             do child.with_mut_base |base| {
-                base.abs_position = offset;
+                base.abs_position = offset + base.position.origin;
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/src/components/main/layout/flow.rs b/src/components/main/layout/flow.rs
index d0da205275a..765bd47114b 100644
--- a/src/components/main/layout/flow.rs
+++ b/src/components/main/layout/flow.rs
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ impl<'self> FlowContext {
         }
 
         s.push_str(self.debug_str());
-        debug!("%s", s);
+        println(s);
 
         // FIXME: this should have a pure/const version?
         for self.each_child |child| {
diff --git a/src/components/main/layout/layout_task.rs b/src/components/main/layout/layout_task.rs
index 595b37dd879..1943191c89a 100644
--- a/src/components/main/layout/layout_task.rs
+++ b/src/components/main/layout/layout_task.rs
@@ -210,12 +210,12 @@ impl LayoutTask {
                 Err(*) => fail!(~"Root flow should always exist")
             };
 
-            debug!("layout: constructed Flow tree");
-            debug!("%?", layout_root.dump());
-
             layout_root
         };
 
+        debug!("layout: constructed Flow tree");
+        debug!("", layout_root.dump());
+
         // Perform the primary layout passes over the flow tree to compute the locations of all
         // the boxes.
         do profile(time::LayoutMainCategory, self.profiler_chan.clone()) {