hi, thanks for your reply.
the “.html” at the end was not the reason for the change, first of all. it was to remove the https://mysite.com/?p=123 structure, which to my understanding is not as web friendly as your example, “/archives/%category%/%postname%/” which I tried as well with the same problems resulting.
2nd, the “category” mention is correct and noted, but it’s just a typo here, and unrelated to my issue.
after refreshing the page a few times, the adsense actually seems to regenerate, but i just realized that the main issue are my flash buttons, and my javascript menu disappearing. on the main page, the sidebar is fine. but click on any article and the sidebar will lose the menu buttons.
what could be happening here?
why would flash be disabled with one permalink structure and not with the other?