diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/SelfCwiseBinaryOp.h b/Eigen/src/Core/SelfCwiseBinaryOp.h
index de8c4e740..5100f6b25 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/SelfCwiseBinaryOp.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/SelfCwiseBinaryOp.h
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ struct ei_traits<SelfCwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp,Lhs,Rhs> >
   : ei_traits<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp,Lhs,Rhs> >
 {
   enum {
-    Flags = ei_traits<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp,Lhs,Rhs> >::Flags | (Lhs::Flags&DirectAccessBit),
+    // Note that it is still a good idea to preserve the DirectAccessBit
+    // so that assign can correctly align the data.
+    Flags = ei_traits<CwiseBinaryOp<BinaryOp,Lhs,Rhs> >::Flags | (Lhs::Flags&DirectAccessBit) | (Lhs::Flags&LvalueBit),
     OuterStrideAtCompileTime = Lhs::OuterStrideAtCompileTime,
     InnerStrideAtCompileTime = Lhs::InnerStrideAtCompileTime
   };
diff --git a/Eigen/src/Geometry/arch/Geometry_SSE.h b/Eigen/src/Geometry/arch/Geometry_SSE.h
index 0078e4aab..77dcecf54 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Geometry/arch/Geometry_SSE.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Geometry/arch/Geometry_SSE.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // for linear algebra.
 //
 // Copyright (C) 2009 Rohit Garg <rpg.314@gmail.com>
-// Copyright (C) 2009 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
+// Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
 //
 // Eigen is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 // modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
@@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ struct ei_quat_product<Architecture::SSE, Derived, OtherDerived, double, Aligned
   const double* a = _a.coeffs().data();
   Packet2d b_xy = _b.coeffs().template packet<Aligned>(0);
   Packet2d b_zw = _b.coeffs().template packet<Aligned>(2);
-  Packet2d a_xx = ei_pset1(a[0]);
-  Packet2d a_yy = ei_pset1(a[1]);
-  Packet2d a_zz = ei_pset1(a[2]);
-  Packet2d a_ww = ei_pset1(a[3]);
+  Packet2d a_xx = ei_pset1<Packet2d>(a[0]);
+  Packet2d a_yy = ei_pset1<Packet2d>(a[1]);
+  Packet2d a_zz = ei_pset1<Packet2d>(a[2]);
+  Packet2d a_ww = ei_pset1<Packet2d>(a[3]);
 
   // two temporaries:
   Packet2d t1, t2;