Stefano, your solutions work great although I’m still having trouble with custom fields.
Specifically, I have a custom field (photo) that when added appears in a flash gallery on my front page (www.keystothebus.com)
When I try to add the photo through the custom fields menu, it gives me a big old red box:
screen cap here.
If you hit the “Update” button the red box goes away and from the admin screen’s point of view, it looks as if all is fine. If you look on the site where the custom field is supposed to appear, however, it isn’t there.
FWIW, it wasn’t working before I implemented the fixes you listed above, so I don’t think those broke anything.
thanks!