This is the problem. They are now stored WITHOUT timezone information in PG 7.3. This change is not transparent to the code.
In order for us to support both PG 7.2 and PG 7.3 - not to mention dump-restore upgrades from 7.2 to 7.3 - we need to change all "timestamp" decls in the toolkit to "timestamptz".
Grrr...