I am experiencing a similar issue. The pretty permalink setting refuses to pull in the post title. Will only pull in the post #. I just tried your solution and it pulls in everything BUT the post name again.
This was working fine yesterday. It stopped working after I made a post today.
Going to do some more digging. However, if you happen to determine a solve for your initial issue, it would be greatly appreciated if you could post it back here. Thanks!
