[eluser]OverZealous[/eluser]
[quote author="ZeusChicago" date="1253184551"]
note sure what you meant here. I was not querying the fa_user_id field, but mearly setting a where condition to only include records where the fa_user_id was set to the userid of the logged in user[/quote]
You should still change it to what I was saying. What you did was manually add a where clause that DMZ can handle internally (and safer, as well). I gave an example of the correct way. Basically, if you allow DMZ to handle the query (where clause), it will automatically append the table name correctly, as well as help with protecting the value, etc.
If you really want to avoid the where_related method (and I don't know why you would), at least query it this way: