diff --git a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
index cab0bd10..b2489c7d 100644
--- a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
@@ -188,16 +188,7 @@ class ProjectsController < ApplicationController
   
   def actionize
     @state = params['state']
-    query_state = ''
-    query_state = 'AND project.state = "' + params['state'] +'" 'if @state
-    projects = Project.find_by_sql([
-    "SELECT project.id, count(todo.id) as p_count " +
-    "FROM projects as project " +
-    "LEFT OUTER JOIN todos as todo ON todo.project_id = project.id "+
-    "WHERE project.user_id = ? " +
-    query_state +
-    " GROUP BY project.id ORDER by p_count DESC",current_user.id])
-    @projects = current_user.projects.actionize(projects,:state => @state) if @state
+    @projects = current_user.projects.actionize(current_user.id, :state => @state) if @state
     @contexts = current_user.contexts
     init_not_done_counts(['project'])
   end
diff --git a/app/models/user.rb b/app/models/user.rb
index 59e3cdbc..75aeb36d 100644
--- a/app/models/user.rb
+++ b/app/models/user.rb
@@ -51,8 +51,18 @@ class User < ActiveRecord::Base
                 self.update_positions(projects.map{ |p| p.id })
                 return projects
               end
-              def actionize(proj,scope_conditions = {})
-                self.update_positions(proj.map{ |p| p.id })
+              def actionize(user_id, scope_conditions = {})
+                @state = scope_conditions[:state]
+                query_state = ''
+                query_state = 'AND project.state = "' + @state +'" 'if @state
+                projects = Project.find_by_sql([
+                    "SELECT project.id, count(todo.id) as p_count " +
+                      "FROM projects as project " +
+                      "LEFT OUTER JOIN todos as todo ON todo.project_id = project.id "+
+                      "WHERE project.user_id = ? AND NOT todo.state='completed' " +
+                      query_state +
+                      " GROUP BY project.id ORDER by p_count DESC",user_id])
+                self.update_positions(projects.map{ |p| p.id })
                 projects = find(:all, :conditions => scope_conditions)
                 return projects
               end
diff --git a/test/functional/projects_controller_test.rb b/test/functional/projects_controller_test.rb
index 1b3fe5db..ee3df3e4 100644
--- a/test/functional/projects_controller_test.rb
+++ b/test/functional/projects_controller_test.rb
@@ -224,8 +224,8 @@ class ProjectsControllerTest < TodoContainerControllerTestBase
     u = users(:admin_user)
     post :actionize, :state => "active", :format => 'js'
     assert_equal 1, projects(:gardenclean).position 
-    assert_equal 2, projects(:moremoney).position
-    assert_equal 3, projects(:timemachine).position 
+    assert_equal 2, projects(:timemachine).position 
+    assert_equal 3, projects(:moremoney).position
   end
   
   def test_alphabetize_sorts_active_projects_alphabetically