Hello Wells,

Sorry to hear of you problems, that sounds like a pain.  I do not think that this is a common error, and I have not experienced it with any sites I have upgraded since Jan 2009.  It might be local to your installation.  Would it be possible to get back to the last know version that was working, install that to a test server, and then try to play with it to see what caused the problem?  Using SQL Compare from RedGate might assist you in identifying the records in the db that are screwed up, or using UltraCompare might assist you in find files that are different.

IOW, if you can get back to an old, but working version, and upgrade straight to 5.4.2, and if that works well, you might be able to identify the files or data records that are different between live and test environments.  I think you will need to set aside a day for all th is.

alternately, if you think that you cannot or do not want to bother fixing it, you could build a "Page Adjustment" sproc that you manually call when needed.  All yo would have to so is identify the parent tabid, and update the tabs table.  this would the become as simple as 

1) make a mental note of the tab id you need the new page to be a child of
2) Create the page and note the new TabId
3) Update Tabs Set ParentId = @PreferredTab where TabId = @NewTabId

This is a low tech solution, but if you only add 100 pages a year, and cannot fix the underlying issue, it might buy you another year or two until you do a complete site refresh.

Mark

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After Upgrade to Version 5.4.4. the organisation of pages using the administration page "pages" is still not functioning correctly.