Answering my own question here but I found some weird entries in the lime_surveys table that had an owner_id of 0 and NULL for both format and language. Not sure how they got in there but one user reported that he had been trying to import surveys. I have pasted the SQL of three of those entries below in case a developer wants to try to replicate. When I deleted these entries from the table the lime survey admin interface began working again. Maybe there is a need to ignore duff entries on the query that feeds the $surveynames[] array on line 203 of common_helper,php ???
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