diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 4fe13730..8ac10b29 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -46,4 +46,5 @@ Patches and Suggestions
 - Josselin Jacquard
 - Travis N. Vaught
 - Fredrik Möllerstrand
-- Daniel Hengeveld
\ No newline at end of file
+- Daniel Hengeveld
+- Dan Head
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 1edef631..b32181e8 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 History
 -------
 
+0.7.4 (2011-10-26)
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+* Sesion Hooks fix.
+
 0.7.3 (2011-10-23)
 ++++++++++++++++++
 
diff --git a/requests/__init__.py b/requests/__init__.py
index fd8853d9..cd7d9d72 100644
--- a/requests/__init__.py
+++ b/requests/__init__.py
@@ -15,15 +15,15 @@ requests
 """
 
 __title__ = 'requests'
-__version__ = '0.7.3'
-__build__ = 0x000703
+__version__ = '0.7.4'
+__build__ = 0x000704
 __author__ = 'Kenneth Reitz'
 __license__ = 'ISC'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2011 Kenneth Reitz'
 
 
 from . import utils
-from .models import HTTPError, Request, Response
+from .models import Request, Response
 from .api import request, get, head, post, patch, put, delete
 from .sessions import session
 from .status_codes import codes
diff --git a/requests/async.py b/requests/async.py
index 3b07f26e..92839c30 100644
--- a/requests/async.py
+++ b/requests/async.py
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ def patched(f):
     """Patches a given API function to not send."""
 
     def wrapped(*args, **kwargs):
-        return f(*args, return_response=False, **kwargs)
+
+        kwargs['return_response'] = False
+
+        return f(*args, **kwargs)
 
     return wrapped
 
diff --git a/requests/defaults.py b/requests/defaults.py
index 951c056d..770001f9 100644
--- a/requests/defaults.py
+++ b/requests/defaults.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ defaults = dict()
 defaults['base_headers'] = {
     'User-Agent': 'python-requests/%s' % __version__,
     'Accept-Encoding': ', '.join(('identity', 'deflate', 'compress', 'gzip')),
+    'Accept': '*/*'
 }
 
 defaults['proxies'] = {}
diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 1fac1a8d..fd74ed54 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -12,21 +12,22 @@ import urllib2
 import socket
 import zlib
 
-from urllib2 import HTTPError
 from urlparse import urlparse, urlunparse, urljoin
 from datetime import datetime
 
+from .auth import dispatch as auth_dispatch
 from .hooks import dispatch_hook
 from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
 from .packages.poster.encode import multipart_encode
 from .packages.poster.streaminghttp import register_openers, get_handlers
-from .utils import (dict_from_cookiejar, get_unicode_from_response, stream_decode_response_unicode, decode_gzip, stream_decode_gzip)
 from .status_codes import codes
 from .exceptions import Timeout, URLRequired, TooManyRedirects
 from .monkeys import Request as _Request
 from .monkeys import HTTPRedirectHandler
+from .utils import (
+    dict_from_cookiejar, get_unicode_from_response,
+    stream_decode_response_unicode, decode_gzip, stream_decode_gzip)
 
-from .auth import dispatch as auth_dispatch
 
 REDIRECT_STATI = (codes.moved, codes.found, codes.other, codes.temporary_moved)
 
diff --git a/requests/sessions.py b/requests/sessions.py
index 5993b27c..eaeb96e4 100644
--- a/requests/sessions.py
+++ b/requests/sessions.py
@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ def merge_kwargs(local_kwarg, default_kwarg):
 class Session(object):
     """A Requests session."""
 
-    __attrs__ = ['headers', 'cookies', 'auth', 'timeout', 'proxies', 'hooks', 'params', 'config']
+    __attrs__ = [
+        'headers', 'cookies', 'auth', 'timeout', 'proxies', 'hooks',
+        'params', 'config']
 
 
     def __init__(self,
@@ -62,7 +64,8 @@ class Session(object):
         proxies=None,
         hooks=None,
         params=None,
-        config=None):
+        config=None,
+        keep_alive=True):
 
         self.headers = headers or {}
         self.cookies = cookies or {}
@@ -72,6 +75,7 @@ class Session(object):
         self.hooks = hooks or {}
         self.params = params or {}
         self.config = config or {}
+        self.keep_alive = keep_alive
 
         for (k, v) in defaults.items():
             self.config.setdefault(k, v)
@@ -157,8 +161,9 @@ class Session(object):
 
             args[attr] = merge_kwargs(local_val, session_val)
 
+
         # Arguments manipulation hook.
-        args = dispatch_hook('args', hooks, args)
+        args = dispatch_hook('args', args['hooks'], args)
 
         r = Request(**args)
 
@@ -169,7 +174,6 @@ class Session(object):
         # Send the HTTP Request.
         r.send()
 
-
         return r.response