diff --git a/installer/windows/freeze.py b/installer/windows/freeze.py
index ae5b503be7..8e9d315807 100644
--- a/installer/windows/freeze.py
+++ b/installer/windows/freeze.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 '''
 Freeze app into executable using py2exe.
 '''
-QT_DIR           = 'C:\\Qt\\4.4.3'
+QT_DIR           = 'C:\\Qt\\4.5.1'
 LIBUSB_DIR       = 'C:\\libusb'
 LIBUNRAR         = 'C:\\Program Files\\UnrarDLL\\unrar.dll'
 PDFTOHTML        = 'C:\\cygwin\\home\\kovid\\poppler-0.10.6\\rel\\pdftohtml.exe'
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/lit/writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/lit/writer.py
index a3ab345c0a..86d10965a4 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/lit/writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/lit/writer.py
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ class LitWriter(object):
             elif isinstance(data, unicode):
                 data = data.encode('utf-8')
             elif hasattr(data, 'cssText'):
-                data = str(data)
+                data = str(item)
             self._add_file(name, data, secnum)
             item.size = len(data)