diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/auth/AuthorizationHelper.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/auth/AuthorizationHelper.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f06d8311f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/auth/AuthorizationHelper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+/* $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ */
+
+package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth;
+
+import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vedit.beans.LoginFormBean;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.identifier.ArrayIdentifierBundle;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.identifier.IdentifierBundle;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.identifier.ServletIdentifierBundleFactory;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.policy.PolicyList;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.policy.RequestPolicyList;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.policy.ServletPolicyList;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.policy.ifaces.Authorization;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.policy.ifaces.PolicyDecision;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.policy.ifaces.PolicyIface;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.requestedAction.AddDataPropStmt;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.requestedAction.DropObjectPropStmt;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.requestedAction.EditObjPropStmt;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.requestedAction.ifaces.RequestActionConstants;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.requestedAction.ifaces.RequestedAction;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.Individual;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroRequest;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.ImageUploadController;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.VitroVocabulary;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.filters.VitroRequestPrep;
+
+public class AuthorizationHelper {
+
+    private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(AuthorizationHelper.class);
+    
+    private VitroRequest vreq;
+    
+    public AuthorizationHelper(VitroRequest vreq) {
+        this.vreq = vreq;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isAuthorizedForRequestedAction(RequestedAction action) {
+        PolicyIface policy = getPolicies();
+        PolicyDecision dec = policy.isAuthorized(getIdentifiers(), action);
+        if (dec != null && dec.getAuthorized() == Authorization.AUTHORIZED) {
+            log.debug("Authorized because self-editing.");
+            return true;
+        } else {
+            log.debug("Not Authorized even though self-editing: "
+                    + ((dec == null) ? "null" : dec.getMessage() + ", "
+                            + dec.getDebuggingInfo()));
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the policy from the request, or from the servlet context.
+     */
+    private PolicyIface getPolicies() {
+        ServletContext servletContext = vreq.getSession().getServletContext();
+
+        PolicyIface policy = RequestPolicyList.getPolicies(vreq);
+        if (isEmptyPolicy(policy)) {
+            policy = ServletPolicyList.getPolicies(servletContext);
+            if (isEmptyPolicy(policy)) {
+                log.error("No policy found in request at "
+                        + RequestPolicyList.POLICY_LIST);
+                policy = new PolicyList();
+            }
+        }
+
+        return policy;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Is there actually a policy here?
+     */
+    private boolean isEmptyPolicy(PolicyIface policy) {
+        return policy == null
+                || (policy instanceof PolicyList && ((PolicyList) policy)
+                        .size() == 0);
+    }
+
+    private IdentifierBundle getIdentifiers() {
+        HttpSession session = vreq.getSession();
+        ServletContext context = session.getServletContext();
+        IdentifierBundle ids = ServletIdentifierBundleFactory
+                .getIdBundleForRequest(vreq, session, context);
+        if (ids == null) {
+            return new ArrayIdentifierBundle();
+        } else {
+            return ids;
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/BrowseController.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/BrowseController.java
index 03440a905..128445282 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/BrowseController.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/BrowseController.java
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ public class BrowseController extends FreemarkerHttpServlet {
 
         Map<String, Object> body = new HashMap<String, Object>();
         String message = null;
+        String templateName = TEMPLATE_DEFAULT;
         
     	if( vreq.getParameter("clearcache") != null ) //mainly for debugging
     		clearGroupCache();
@@ -94,22 +95,20 @@ public class BrowseController extends FreemarkerHttpServlet {
     	if (groups == null || groups.isEmpty()) {
     		message = "There are not yet any items in the system.";
     	}
-    	else {
-    	    // FreeMarker will wrap vcgroups in a SimpleSequence. So do we want to create the SimpleSequence directly?
-    	    // But, makes code less portable to another system.
-    	    // SimpleSequence vcgroups = new SimpleSequence(groups.size());   	    
+    	else {  	    
     	    List<VClassGroupTemplateModel> vcgroups = new ArrayList<VClassGroupTemplateModel>(groups.size());   	    
-    		for (VClassGroup g: groups) {
-    		    vcgroups.add(new VClassGroupTemplateModel(g));
+    		for (VClassGroup group : groups) {
+    		    vcgroups.add(new VClassGroupTemplateModel(group));
     		}
     		body.put("classGroups", vcgroups);
     	} 
     	
     	if (message != null) {
     	    body.put("message", message);
+    	    templateName = Template.TITLED_MESSAGE.toString();
     	} 
     	
-        return new TemplateResponseValues(TEMPLATE_DEFAULT, body);
+        return new TemplateResponseValues(templateName, body);
     }
 
     public void destroy(){
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/FreemarkerHttpServlet.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/FreemarkerHttpServlet.java
index 2d98dbae9..0f4efd510 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/FreemarkerHttpServlet.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/FreemarkerHttpServlet.java
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ public class FreemarkerHttpServlet extends VitroHttpServlet {
     protected enum Template {
         STANDARD_ERROR("error-standard.ftl"),
         ERROR_MESSAGE("error-message.ftl"),
-        TITLED_ERROR_MESSAGE("error-titledMessage.ftl"),
+        TITLED_ERROR_MESSAGE("error-titled.ftl"),
         MESSAGE("message.ftl"),
+        TITLED_MESSAGE("message-titled.ftl"),
         PAGE_DEFAULT("page.ftl");
         
         private final String filename;
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/ImageUploadController.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/ImageUploadController.java
index 4040f5485..f00d66ebc 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/ImageUploadController.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/ImageUploadController.java
@@ -2,10 +2,8 @@
 
 package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
-import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Map.Entry;
 
@@ -14,7 +12,6 @@ import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
 import javax.servlet.ServletException;
 import javax.servlet.UnavailableException;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
 
 import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem;
@@ -23,6 +20,7 @@ import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vedit.beans.LoginFormBean;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.ConfigurationProperties;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.AuthorizationHelper;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.identifier.ArrayIdentifierBundle;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.identifier.IdentifierBundle;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.identifier.ServletIdentifierBundleFactory;
@@ -40,10 +38,6 @@ import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.requestedAction.ifaces.RequestedAct
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.Individual;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.Controllers;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroRequest;
-import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.FreemarkerHttpServlet;
-import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.ImageUploadHelper;
-import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.UrlBuilder;
-import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.FreemarkerHttpServlet.ResponseValues;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.VitroVocabulary;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.filestorage.backend.FileStorage;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.filestorage.backend.FileStorageSetup;
@@ -51,7 +45,6 @@ import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.filestorage.model.FileInfo;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.filestorage.model.ImageInfo;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.filestorage.uploadrequest.FileUploadServletRequest;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.filters.VitroRequestPrep;
-import freemarker.template.Configuration;
 
 /**
  * Handle adding, replacing or deleting the main image on an Individual.
@@ -636,62 +629,9 @@ public class ImageUploadController extends FreemarkerHttpServlet {
 					VitroVocabulary.IND_MAIN_IMAGE,
 					RequestActionConstants.SOME_LITERAL, null, null);
 		}
-		return checkAuthorizedForRequestedAction(vreq, ra);
-	}
-
-	private boolean checkAuthorizedForRequestedAction(VitroRequest vreq,
-			RequestedAction action) {
-		PolicyIface policy = getPolicies(vreq);
-		PolicyDecision dec = policy.isAuthorized(getIdentifiers(vreq), action);
-		if (dec != null && dec.getAuthorized() == Authorization.AUTHORIZED) {
-			log.debug("Authorized because self-editing.");
-			return true;
-		} else {
-			log.debug("Not Authorized even though self-editing: "
-					+ ((dec == null) ? "null" : dec.getMessage() + ", "
-							+ dec.getDebuggingInfo()));
-			return false;
-		}
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Get the policy from the request, or from the servlet context.
-	 */
-	private PolicyIface getPolicies(VitroRequest vreq) {
-		ServletContext servletContext = vreq.getSession().getServletContext();
-
-		PolicyIface policy = RequestPolicyList.getPolicies(vreq);
-		if (isEmptyPolicy(policy)) {
-			policy = ServletPolicyList.getPolicies(servletContext);
-			if (isEmptyPolicy(policy)) {
-				log.error("No policy found in request at "
-						+ RequestPolicyList.POLICY_LIST);
-				policy = new PolicyList();
-			}
-		}
-
-		return policy;
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Is there actually a policy here?
-	 */
-	private boolean isEmptyPolicy(PolicyIface policy) {
-		return policy == null
-				|| (policy instanceof PolicyList && ((PolicyList) policy)
-						.size() == 0);
-	}
-
-	private IdentifierBundle getIdentifiers(VitroRequest vreq) {
-		HttpSession session = vreq.getSession();
-		ServletContext context = session.getServletContext();
-		IdentifierBundle ids = ServletIdentifierBundleFactory
-				.getIdBundleForRequest(vreq, session, context);
-		if (ids == null) {
-			return new ArrayIdentifierBundle();
-		} else {
-			return ids;
-		}
+		
+		AuthorizationHelper helper = new AuthorizationHelper(vreq);
+		return helper.isAuthorizedForRequestedAction(ra);
 	}
 
 }
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/templatemodels/VClassTemplateModel.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/templatemodels/VClassTemplateModel.java
index 45ba71689..2c0edb396 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/templatemodels/VClassTemplateModel.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/templatemodels/VClassTemplateModel.java
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.UrlBuilder.Route;
 
 public class VClassTemplateModel extends BaseTemplateModel {
     
-    private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(VClassTemplateModel.class.getName());
+    private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(VClassTemplateModel.class);
     private static final String PATH = Route.INDIVIDUAL_LIST.path();
     
     private VClass vclass;
diff --git a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/classGroups.ftl b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/classGroups.ftl
index fc4b6c2aa..41a6dacb6 100644
--- a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/classGroups.ftl
+++ b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/classGroups.ftl
@@ -2,18 +2,13 @@
 
 <#-- List class groups, and classes within each group. -->
 
-<#if message??>
-    <p>${message}</p>
-<#else>
-    <div class="siteMap">
-        <#list classGroups as classGroup>
-            <h2>${classGroup.publicName}</h2>
-            <ul>
-                <#list classGroup.classes as class> 
-                    <li><a href="${class.url}">${class.name}</a> (${class.individualCount})</li>
-    
-                </#list>
-            </ul>
-        </#list>
-    </div>
-</#if>
\ No newline at end of file
+<div class="siteMap">
+    <#list classGroups as classGroup>
+        <h2>${classGroup.publicName}</h2>
+        <ul>
+            <#list classGroup.classes as class> 
+                <li><a href="${class.url}">${class.name}</a> (${class.individualCount})</li>
+            </#list>
+        </ul>
+    </#list>
+</div>
diff --git a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/message/message-titled.ftl b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/message/message-titled.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3e250249f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/message/message-titled.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<#-- $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ -->
+
+<#-- Standard template to display a message with a title generated from any controller. Keeps this out of individual templates. -->
+
+<h2>${title}</h2>
+
+<#include "message.ftl">
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/message.ftl b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/message/message.ftl
similarity index 100%
rename from webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/message.ftl
rename to webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/message/message.ftl