diff --git a/release-notes.html b/release-notes.html
index f4a36e3..6d40887 100644
--- a/release-notes.html
+++ b/release-notes.html
@@ -11,11 +11,12 @@
 
 <section id="0.15">
 	<header>
-		<h2><a href="#0.14">Version 0.15</a></h2>
+		<h2><a href="#0.15">Version 0.15</a></h2>
 	</header>
-
+	<p>July 4th, 2009</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>added --keep-editor-data command-line option</li>
+		<li>Fix Bug 395645: Keep all identified children inside a defs (Thanks Frederik!)</li>
 	</ul>
 </section>
 
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@
 	<header>
 		<h2><a href="#0.14">Version 0.14</a></h2>
 	</header>
-
+	<p>June 10th, 2009</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Collapse adjacent commands of the same type</li>
 		<li>Convert straight curves into line commands</li>
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@
 	<header>
 		<h2><a href="#0.13">Version 0.13</a></h2>
 	</header>
-
+	<p>May 19th, 2009</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>properly deal with fill="url(&amp;quot;#foo&amp;quot;)"</li>
 		<li>properly handle paths with more than 1 pair of coordinates in the first Move command</li>
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@
 	<header>
 		<h2><a href="#0.12">Version 0.12</a></h2>
 	</header>
-
+	<p>May 17th, 2009</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>upgraded enthought's path parser to handle scientific notation in path coordinates</li>
 		<li>convert colors to #RRGGBB format</li>
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@
 	<header>
 		<h2><a href="#0.11">Version 0.11</a></h2>
 	</header>
-
+	<p>April 28th, 2009</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>convert gradient stop offsets from percentages to float</li>
 		<li>convert gradient stop offsets to integers if possible (0 or 1)</li>
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@
 	<header>
 		<h2><a href="#0.10">Version 0.10</a></h2>
 	</header>
-
+	<p>April 27th, 2009</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Remove path with empty d attributes</li>
 		<li>Sanitize path data (remove unnecessary whitespace)</li>
@@ -101,7 +102,7 @@
 	<header>
 		<h2><a href="#0.09">Version 0.09</a></h2>
 	</header>
-
+	<p>April 25th, 2009</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Fix bug when removing stroke styles</li>
 		<li>Remove gradients that are only referenced by one other gradient</li>
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@
 	<header>
 		<h2><a href="#0.08">Version 0.08</a></h2>
 	</header>
-
+	<p>April 22nd, 2009</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Remove unnecessary nested &lt;g&gt; elements</li>
 		<li>Remove duplicate gradient stops (same offset, stop-color, stop-opacity)</li>
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@
 	<header>
 		<h2><a href="#0.07">Version 0.07</a></h2>
 	</header>
-
+	<p>April 15th, 2009</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>moved all functionality into a module level function named 'scour' and began adding unit tests</li>
 		<li>prevent metadata from being removed if they contain only text nodes</li>
@@ -141,7 +142,7 @@
 	<header>
 		<h2><a href="#0.06">Version 0.06</a></h2>
 	</header>
-
+	<p>April 13th, 2009</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Prevent error when stroke-width property value has a unit</li>
 		<li>Convert width/height into a viewBox where possible</li>
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@
 	<header>
 		<h2><a href="#0.05">Version 0.05 and earlier</a></h2>
 	</header>
-
+	<p>April 7th, 2009</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Removes unreferenced elements in a &lt;defs&gt;</li>
 		<li>Removes all inkscape, sodipodi, adobe elements</li>
diff --git a/scour.py b/scour.py
index 6542b2d..466d560 100755
--- a/scour.py
+++ b/scour.py
@@ -471,6 +471,24 @@ numBytesSavedInPathData = 0
 numBytesSavedInColors = 0
 numPointsRemovedFromPolygon = 0
 
+def removeUnusedDefs(doc, defElem, elemsToRemove=None):
+	if elemsToRemove is None:
+		elemsToRemove = []
+
+	identifiedElements = findElementsWithId(doc.documentElement)
+	referencedIDs = findReferencedElements(doc.documentElement)
+	
+	keepTags = ['font', 'style', 'metadata', 'script', 'title', 'desc']
+	for elem in defElem.childNodes:
+		if elem.nodeName == 'g' and elem.namespaceURI == NS['SVG']:
+			elemsToRemove = removeUnusedDefs(doc, elem, elemsToRemove)
+			continue
+		if elem.nodeType == 1 and (elem.getAttribute('id') == '' or \
+				(not elem.getAttribute('id') in referencedIDs)) and \
+				not elem.nodeName in keepTags:
+			elemsToRemove.append(elem)
+	return elemsToRemove
+
 def removeUnreferencedElements(doc):
 	"""
 	Removes all unreferenced elements except for <svg>, <font>, <metadata>, <title>, and <desc>.	
@@ -494,26 +512,15 @@ def removeUnreferencedElements(doc):
 				numElemsRemoved += 1
 
 	# TODO: should also go through defs and vacuum it
-	identifiedElements = findElementsWithId(doc.documentElement)
-	referencedIDs = findReferencedElements(doc.documentElement)
-	
-	keepTags = ['font', 'style', 'metadata', 'script', 'title', 'desc']
 	num = 0
 	defs = doc.documentElement.getElementsByTagNameNS(NS['SVG'], 'defs')
 	for aDef in defs:
-		elemsToRemove = []
-		for elem in aDef.childNodes:
-			if elem.nodeType == 1 and (elem.getAttribute('id') == '' or \
-					(not elem.getAttribute('id') in referencedIDs)) and \
-					not elem.nodeName in keepTags:
-				elemsToRemove.append(elem)
+		elemsToRemove = removeUnusedDefs(doc, aDef)
 		for elem in elemsToRemove:
-			aDef.removeChild(elem)
+			elem.parentNode.removeChild(elem)
 			numElemsRemoved += 1
 			num += 1
 	return num
-	
-	return num
 
 def removeUnreferencedIDs(referencedIDs, identifiedElements):
 	"""
diff --git a/testscour.py b/testscour.py
index 9fae400..d12f325 100755
--- a/testscour.py
+++ b/testscour.py
@@ -596,6 +596,12 @@ class DoNotRemovePolgonLastPoint(unittest.TestCase):
 		self.assertEquals(p.getAttribute('points'), '200,50 300,50 300,150 200,150',
 			'Last point of polygon removed' )
 
+class DoNotRemoveGroupsWithIDsInDefs(unittest.TestCase):
+	def runTest(self):
+		f = scour.scourXmlFile('unittests/important-groups-in-defs.svg')
+		self.assertEquals(len(f.getElementsByTagNameNS(SVGNS, 'linearGradient')), 1,
+			'Group in defs with id\'ed element removed');
+
 # TODO: write tests for --set-precision for path data, for polygon data, for attributes
 # TODO; write a test for embedding rasters
 # TODO: write a test for --disable-embed-rasters