diff --git a/cake/libs/model/model.php b/cake/libs/model/model.php
index 950f61418..0c59a2f17 100644
--- a/cake/libs/model/model.php
+++ b/cake/libs/model/model.php
@@ -1426,7 +1426,7 @@ class Model extends Overloadable {
 			if (!($model->create($data) && $this->validates())) {
 				return false;
 			}
-		} elseif (!($model->create($data) && $model->save(null, $options))) {
+		} elseif (!($model->create(null) !== null && $model->save($data, $options))) {
 			return false;
 		}
 		return true;
diff --git a/cake/tests/cases/libs/model/model.test.php b/cake/tests/cases/libs/model/model.test.php
index da31145ca..c09f9bed2 100644
--- a/cake/tests/cases/libs/model/model.test.php
+++ b/cake/tests/cases/libs/model/model.test.php
@@ -2150,16 +2150,16 @@ class ModelTest extends CakeTestCase {
 		);
 		$ts = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
 		$this->assertTrue($this->model->saveAll($data));
-	
+
 		$result = $this->model->find('all', array('recursive' => -1));
 		$expected = array(
 			array('Post' => array('id' => '1', 'author_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Baleeted First Post', 'body' => 'Baleeted!', 'published' => 'N', 'created' => '2007-03-18 10:39:23', 'updated' => $ts)),
-			array('Post' => array('id' => '2', 'author_id' => '3', 'title' => 'Just update the title', 'body' => 'Second Post Body', 'published' => 'N', 'created' => '2007-03-18 10:41:23', 'updated' => $ts)),
+			array('Post' => array('id' => '2', 'author_id' => '3', 'title' => 'Just update the title', 'body' => 'Second Post Body', 'published' => 'Y', 'created' => '2007-03-18 10:41:23', 'updated' => $ts)),
 			array('Post' => array('id' => '3', 'author_id' => '1', 'title' => 'Third Post', 'body' => 'Third Post Body', 'published' => 'Y', 'created' => '2007-03-18 10:43:23', 'updated' => '2007-03-18 10:45:31')),
 			array('Post' => array('id' => '4', 'author_id' => '2', 'title' => 'Creating a fourth post', 'body' => 'Fourth post body', 'published' => 'N', 'created' => $ts, 'updated' => $ts))
 		);
 		$this->assertEqual($result, $expected);
-	
+
 		$this->model->validate = array('title' => VALID_NOT_EMPTY, 'author_id' => 'numeric');
 		$data = array(
 			array('id' => '1', 'title' => 'Un-Baleeted First Post', 'body' => 'Not Baleeted!', 'published' => 'Y'),