Reviewed-by: bae, srl

Summary: to use new InternalError constructor with cause chainning
Reviewed-by: alanb, ksrini, xuelei, neugens
Contributed-by: sebastian.sickelmann@gmx.de

Reviewed-by: darcy, weijun

Reviewed-by: prr, igor

Reviewed-by: jgodinez, dougfelt

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Reviewed-by: tdv, jgodinez