I found out that on cakephp 1.2 RC3 you must use the new $Model->find() style or the query will break.

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//in the controller use this…
$this->Post->find(’first’, $params);
 
//instead of the ‘old’ style…
$this->Post->find($conditions);
 
//so that in the model, you can do something like this…
function beforeFind($queryData) {
$queryData[’conditions’]["`Post`.`post_type`"] = "personal";
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