In CakePHP 1.3, if I do, say:
$this->User->find('first');
I get a model item back. But if I add an order clause:
$this->User->find('first', array('order' => array('user.id' => 'asc')));
it returns false.
This is only affecting the server installation - both queries work as expected on my dev environment running the same CakePHP version, albeit on a later version of PHP.