diff -u drupalorg_search/drupalorg_search.module drupalorg_search/drupalorg_search.module
--- drupalorg_search/drupalorg_search.module	18 Aug 2010 23:53:55 -0000
+++ drupalorg_search/drupalorg_search.module	19 Aug 2010 01:30:19 -0000
@@ -353,52 +353,15 @@
  * blocks. Creates and caches a solr query for use by block elements.
  */
 function drupalorg_search_execute_base_query() {
-  // Build a simple query.
-  $base_path = 'project/modules';
-  
-  $filters = isset($_GET['filters']) ? $_GET['filters'] : '';  
-  $query = apachesolr_drupal_query('', $filters, '', $base_path);  
 
-  $params = array(
-    // The fields to return.
-    'fl' => 'id,nid,title',
-    'start' => 0,
-    // We don't actually need to return rows.
-    'rows' => 1,
-    // We need to be able to facet on the project vid value
-    // so we can pull project categories.
-    'facet.field' => array(
-      'type',
-      'im_vid_' . _project_get_vid(),
-      'im_project_release_api_tids',
-    ),
-    // Filters are set below via explicit calls to add_filter() rather than 
-    // here in the $params array. This is because any filters passed to 
-    // apachesolr_drupal_query() will override filters set via the $params
-    // array during the prepare_query() invocation.
-    'fq' => array(),
-    'facet' => 'true',
-    'facet.mincount' => 1,
-    'facet.sort' => 'true',
-  );
+  // Create an object for the 'Modules' project type. Since we're hard-coding
+  // anyway, we don't need a full taxonomy_get_term().
+  $project_type = new stdClass;
+  $project_type->tid = DRUPALORG_MODULE_TID;
+  $project_type->name = 'modules';
 
-  apachesolr_search_add_facet_params($params, $query);
-
-  // Allow modules to alter the query prior to statically caching it.
-  // This can e.g. be used to add available sorts.
-  foreach (module_implements('apachesolr_prepare_query') as $module) {
-    $function_name = $module . '_apachesolr_prepare_query';
-    $function_name($query, $params, 'drupalorg_search_execute_base_query');
-  }
-
-  // We add our fields after the prepare_query() because prepare_query()
-  // generates a call to parse_filters() which destroys anything that
-  // does not get passed into the query on construction.
-  // We explicitly filter the blocks to only show projects with the module tid
-  // associated. These values are not passed in the url, so we add them here
-  // ourselves to ensure we only get the content we want.
-  $query->add_filter('type', 'project_project');
-  $query->add_filter('im_vid_' . _project_get_vid(), DRUPALORG_MODULE_TID);
+  // Grab a Solr query with almost everything we need from project_solr. 
+  $query = project_solr_build_project_query($project_type);
 
   // Cache the built query. Since all the built queries go through
   // this process, all the hook_invocations will happen later.