diff --git a/cake/console/libs/console.php b/cake/console/libs/console.php
index 7f755f7dc..3cd668178 100644
--- a/cake/console/libs/console.php
+++ b/cake/console/libs/console.php
@@ -58,7 +58,11 @@ class ConsoleShell extends Shell {
  * @access public
  */
 	function initialize() {
-		$this->models = @loadModels();
+		require_once CAKE . 'dispatcher.php';
+		$this->Dispatcher = new Dispatcher();
+		$this->models = Configure::listObjects('model');
+		App::import('Model', $this->models);
+
 		foreach ($this->models as $model) {
 			$class = Inflector::camelize(r('.php', '', $model));
 			$this->models[$model] = $class;
@@ -71,22 +75,33 @@ class ConsoleShell extends Shell {
 			$this->out(" - {$model}");
 		}
 	}
+/**
+ * Prints the help message
+ *
+ * @access public
+ */
+	function help() {
+		$this->main('help');
+	}
 /**
  * Override main() to handle action
  *
  * @access public
  */
-	function main() {
+	function main($command = null) {
 		while (true) {
-			$command = trim($this->in(''));
+			if (empty($command)) {
+				$command = trim($this->in(''));
+			}
 
 			switch($command) {
 				case 'help':
 					$this->out('Console help:');
 					$this->out('-------------');
-					$this->out('The interactive console is a tool for testing models before you commit code');
+					$this->out('The interactive console is a tool for testing parts of your app before you commit code');
 					$this->out('');
-					$this->out('To test for results, use the name of your model without a leading $');
+					$this->out('Model testing:');
+					$this->out('To test model results, use the name of your model without a leading $');
 					$this->out('e.g. Foo->findAll()');
 					$this->out('');
 					$this->out('To dynamically set associations, you can do the following:');
@@ -105,6 +120,16 @@ class ConsoleShell extends Shell {
 					$this->out("To get column information for a model, use the following:");
 					$this->out("\tModelA columns");
 					$this->out("which returns a list of columns and their type");
+					$this->out('');
+					$this->out('Route testing:');
+					$this->out('To test URLs against your app\'s route configuration, type:');
+					$this->out("\tRoute <url>");
+					$this->out("where url is the path to your your action plus any query parameters, minus the");
+					$this->out("application's base path");
+					$this->out('');
+					$this->out('To reload your routes config (config/routes.php), do the following:');
+					$this->out("\tRoute reload");
+					$this->out('');
 				break;
 				case 'quit':
 				case 'exit':
@@ -249,10 +274,21 @@ class ConsoleShell extends Shell {
 						$this->out("Please verify that you selected a valid model");
 					}
 				break;
+				case (preg_match("/^routes\s+reload/i", $command, $tmp) == true):
+					$router =& Router::getInstance();
+					$router->reload();
+					if (config('routes') && $router->parse('/')) {
+						$this->out("Routes configuration reloaded, " . count($router->routes) . " routes connected");
+					}
+				break;
+				case (preg_match("/^route\s+(.*)/i", $command, $tmp) == true):
+					$this->out(Debugger::exportVar(Router::parse($tmp[1])));
+				break;
 				default:
 					$this->out("Invalid command\n");
 				break;
 			}
+			$command = '';
 		}
 	}
 /**
diff --git a/cake/libs/configure.php b/cake/libs/configure.php
index 121fb482d..be1488e4d 100644
--- a/cake/libs/configure.php
+++ b/cake/libs/configure.php
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ class Configure extends Object {
 		if (empty($_this->__objects) || !isset($_this->__objects[$type]) || $cache !== true) {
 			$Inflector =& Inflector::getInstance();
 			$types = array(
-				'model' => array('suffix' => '.php', 'base' => 'AppModel'),
+				'model' => array('suffix' => '.php', 'base' => 'AppModel', 'core' => false),
 				'behavior' => array('suffix' => '.php', 'base' => 'ModelBehavior'),
 				'controller' => array('suffix' => '_controller.php', 'base' => 'AppController'),
 				'component' => array('suffix' => '.php', 'base' => null),
@@ -172,8 +172,10 @@ class Configure extends Object {
 			$objects = array();
 
 			if (empty($path)) {
-				$pathVar = $type . 'Paths';
-				$path = $_this->{$pathVar};
+				$path = $_this->{$type . 'Paths'};
+				if (isset($types[$type]['core']) && $types[$type]['core'] === false) {
+					array_pop($path);
+				}
 			}
 			$items = array();
 
diff --git a/cake/libs/model/schema.php b/cake/libs/model/schema.php
index 388abdd46..fabdd61db 100644
--- a/cake/libs/model/schema.php
+++ b/cake/libs/model/schema.php
@@ -195,8 +195,7 @@ class CakeSchema extends Object {
 		}
 
 		if (!is_array($models) && $models !== false) {
-			$appPaths = array_diff(Configure::read('modelPaths'), Configure::corePaths('model'));
-			$models = Configure::listObjects('model', $appPaths, false);
+			$models = Configure::listObjects('model');
 		}
 
 		if (is_array($models)) {
diff --git a/cake/tests/cases/libs/configure.test.php b/cake/tests/cases/libs/configure.test.php
index ab6736b19..e2010322f 100644
--- a/cake/tests/cases/libs/configure.test.php
+++ b/cake/tests/cases/libs/configure.test.php
@@ -45,9 +45,6 @@ class ConfigureTest extends UnitTestCase {
 		$this->assertTrue(in_array('Cache', $result));
 		$this->assertTrue(in_array('HttpSocket', $result));
 
-		$result = $this->Configure->listObjects('model');
-		$this->assertTrue(in_array('Model', $result));
-
 		$result = $this->Configure->listObjects('behavior');
 		$this->assertTrue(in_array('Tree', $result));
 
@@ -81,12 +78,15 @@ class ConfigureTest extends UnitTestCase {
 		$notExpected = array('AppModel', 'Behavior', 'ConnectionManager',  'DbAcl', 'Model', 'Schema');
 
 		foreach ($notExpected as $class) {
-			//$this->assertFalse(in_array($class, $result));
+			$this->assertFalse(in_array($class, $result));
 		}
 	}
 
 	function tearDown() {
 		unset($this->Configure);
+		if (file_exists(TMP . 'cache' . DS . 'persistent' . DS . 'cake_core_core_paths')) {
+			unlink(TMP . 'cache' . DS . 'persistent' . DS . 'cake_core_core_paths');
+		}
 	}
 }