diff --git a/C4/Output.pm b/C4/Output.pm
index b512f30ccd..49a0ff0407 100644
--- a/C4/Output.pm
+++ b/C4/Output.pm
@@ -134,6 +134,17 @@ sub gettemplate {
     return $template;
 }
 
+# FIXME - this is a horrible hack to cache
+# the current known-good language, temporarily
+# put in place to resolve bug 4403.  It is
+# used only by C4::XSLT::XSLTParse4Display;
+# the language is set via the usual call
+# to themelanguage.
+my $_current_language = 'en';
+sub _current_language {
+    return $_current_language;
+}
+
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # FIXME - POD
 sub themelanguage {
@@ -193,6 +204,8 @@ sub themelanguage {
             #}
         }
     }
+
+    $_current_language = $lang; # FIXME part of bad hack to paper over bug 4403
     return ( $theme, $lang );
 }
 
diff --git a/C4/XSLT.pm b/C4/XSLT.pm
index e67aa54b10..6fd93b480f 100644
--- a/C4/XSLT.pm
+++ b/C4/XSLT.pm
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ use C4::Koha;
 use C4::Biblio;
 use C4::Circulation;
 use C4::Reserves;
+use C4::Output qw//;
 use Encode;
 use XML::LibXML;
 use XML::LibXSLT;
@@ -146,12 +147,16 @@ sub XSLTParse4Display {
         my $xslfile;
         if ($interface eq 'intranet') {
             $xslfile = C4::Context->config('intrahtdocs') . 
-                      "/prog/en/xslt/" .
+                      '/' . C4::Context->preference("template") . 
+                      '/' . C4::Output::_current_language() .
+                      '/xslt/' .
                       C4::Context->preference('marcflavour') .
                       "slim2intranet$xsl_suffix.xsl";
         } else {
             $xslfile = C4::Context->config('opachtdocs') . 
-                      "/prog/en/xslt/" .
+                      '/' . C4::Context->preference("opacthemes") . 
+                      '/' . C4::Output::_current_language() .
+                      '/xslt/' .
                       C4::Context->preference('marcflavour') .
                       "slim2OPAC$xsl_suffix.xsl";
         }