diff --git a/reference/com/com.xml b/reference/com/com.xml
index 680e1b30a4..2033d4fc7d 100644
--- a/reference/com/com.xml
+++ b/reference/com/com.xml
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
        Specifies the codepage that is used to convert strings to
        unicode-strings and vice versa.  The conversion is applied whenever a
        PHP string is passed as a parameter or returned from a method of this
-       COM object.  The code page is sticky in PHP 5, which means that it will
+       COM object.  The code page is sticky, which means that it will
        propagate to objects and variants returned from the object.
       </simpara>
       <simpara>
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
    property or method accesses are passed through to COM.
   </para>
   <para>
-   Starting with PHP 5, PHP will automatically detect methods that accept
+   PHP will automatically detect methods that accept
    parameters by reference, and will automatically convert regular PHP
    variables to a form that can be passed by reference.  This means that you
    can call the method very naturally; you needn't go to any extra effort in
@@ -169,85 +169,6 @@
   </para>
  </section>
 
- <section xml:id="class.com.falsemethods">
-  <title>Pseudo Methods</title>
-  <para>
-   In PHP versions prior to 5, a number of not very pleasant hacks meant that
-   the following method names were not passed through to COM and were handled
-   directly by PHP.  PHP 5 eliminates these things; read the details below to
-   determine how to fix your scripts.  These magic method names are case
-   insensitive.
-  </para>
-  <methodsynopsis xml:id="com.addref">
-   <type>void</type><methodname>COM::AddRef</methodname>
-   <void/>
-  </methodsynopsis>
-  <simpara>
-   Artificially adds a reference count to the COM object.
-  </simpara>
-  <warning>
-   <simpara>
-    You should never need to use this method. It exists as a logical complement
-    to the Release() method below.
-   </simpara>
-  </warning>
-  <methodsynopsis xml:id="com.release">
-   <type>void</type><methodname>COM::Release</methodname>
-   <void/>
-  </methodsynopsis>
-  <simpara>
-   Artificially removes a reference count from the COM object.
-  </simpara>
-  <warning>
-   <simpara>
-    You should never need to use this method.  Its existence in PHP is a bug
-    designed to work around a bug that keeps COM objects running longer than
-    they should.
-   </simpara>
-  </warning>
- </section>
- <section xml:id="class.com.iteratormethods">
-  <title>Pseudo Methods for Iterating</title>
-  <para>
-   These pseudo methods are only available if
-   <function>com_isenum</function> returns &true;, in which case, they hide
-   any methods with the same names that might otherwise be provided by the
-   COM object.  These methods have all been eliminated in PHP 5, and you
-   should use <xref linkend="com.examples.foreach"/> instead.
-  </para>
-  <methodsynopsis xml:id="com.all">
-   <type>variant</type><methodname>COM::All</methodname>
-   <void/>
-  </methodsynopsis>
-  <simpara>
-   Returns a variant representing a SafeArray that has 10 elements;
-   each element will be an empty/null variant.  This function was supposed to
-   return an array containing all the elements from the iterator, but was
-   never completed.  Do not use.
-  </simpara>
-  <methodsynopsis xml:id="com.next">
-   <type>variant</type><methodname>COM::Next</methodname>
-   <void/>
-  </methodsynopsis>
-  <simpara>
-   Returns a variant representing the next element available from
-   the iterator, or &false; when there are no more elements.
-  </simpara>
-  <methodsynopsis xml:id="com.prev">
-   <type>variant</type><methodname>COM::Prev</methodname>
-   <void/>
-  </methodsynopsis>
-  <simpara>Returns a variant representing the previous element available from
-   the iterator, or &false; when there are no more elements.
-  </simpara>
-  <methodsynopsis xml:id="com.reset">
-   <type>void</type><methodname>COM::Reset</methodname>
-   <void/>
-  </methodsynopsis>
-  <simpara>
-   Rewinds the iterator back to the start.
-  </simpara>
- </section>
  <section xml:id="class.com.examples">
   <title>COM examples</title>
   <para>