diff -up zabbix-1.8.4/frontends/php/api/classes/class.ctemplate.php.orig zabbix-1.8.4/frontends/php/api/classes/class.ctemplate.php
--- zabbix-1.8.4/frontends/php/api/classes/class.ctemplate.php.orig	2011-01-04 08:57:52.000000000 -0500
+++ zabbix-1.8.4/frontends/php/api/classes/class.ctemplate.php	2011-01-04 18:15:12.000000000 -0500
@@ -1560,7 +1560,7 @@ COpt::memoryPick();
 				self::exception(ZBX_API_ERROR_PARAMETERS,
 					S_TEMPLATE_WITH_ITEM_KEY.' ['.htmlspecialchars($db_cnt['key_']).'] '.S_ALREADY_LINKED_TO_HOST_SMALL);
 			}
-
+/*
 			$sql = 'SELECT name, count(*) as cnt '.
 				' FROM applications '.
 				' WHERE '.DBcondition('hostid',$allids).
@@ -1571,6 +1571,7 @@ COpt::memoryPick();
 				self::exception(ZBX_API_ERROR_PARAMETERS,
 					S_TEMPLATE_WITH_APPLICATION.' ['.htmlspecialchars($db_cnt['name']).'] '.S_ALREADY_LINKED_TO_HOST_SMALL);
 			}
+*/
 		}
 // }}} check if any templates linked to targets have more than one unique item key\application
 
diff -up zabbix-1.8.4/frontends/php/include/hosts.inc.php.orig zabbix-1.8.4/frontends/php/include/hosts.inc.php
--- zabbix-1.8.4/frontends/php/include/hosts.inc.php.orig	2011-01-04 08:57:51.000000000 -0500
+++ zabbix-1.8.4/frontends/php/include/hosts.inc.php	2011-01-04 18:11:47.000000000 -0500
@@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@ return $result;
 			}
 		}
 
-
+/*
 		$sql = 'SELECT name,count(*) as cnt '.
 			' FROM applications '.
 			' WHERE '.DBcondition('hostid',$templateid_list).
@@ -1604,7 +1604,7 @@ return $result;
 				error(S_TEMPLATE_WITH_APPLICATION.SPACE.'['.htmlspecialchars($db_cnt['name']).']'.SPACE.S_ALREADY_LINKED_TO_HOST_SMALL);
 			}
 		}
-
+*/
 	return $result;
 	}