I have a crazy problem editing any sites that come under the locations sub sites in my SP 2007 portal My location site has a collection of sub sites for each of our location in the organaisations. These have all got publishing features enabled The problem is every time I go to Siteactions/ Edit page, the page opens as expected with the edit options on the web parts, but as soon as i go to Edit / Modify shared web part i get the error page - This Page has been modified since you opened it. You must open the page again. Refresh page. amnd now get stuck in a comoplete loop of refresh etc The only way that works is Site actions/ Edit page Now click on the Check in to Share draft on the editting toolbar I then ger the error page again This Page has been modified since you opened it. You must open the page again. This time when i press the refresh button i then press the edit page icon from the editting toolbar NOW the page will edit as usual If i try and deactivate publishing features as soon as I try and apply changes to a webpart such as a content editor webpart I get a small pop up error message from webpage - Cannot save your changes, and I can only edit with the publishing features edabled. Any Ideas Thanks

Have you seen this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tejasr/archive/2008/06/19/resolution-moss-this-page-has-been-modified-since-you-opened-it-you-must-open-the-page-again.aspx Behavior/Symptoms: Whenever user tries to add a web part to the page, he gets the following error message "This Page has been modified since you opened it. You must open the page again." If he refreshes the page and adds, It works. User has a custom site definition. This problem suddenly appeared after applying SP1, till then it was working fine. Cause: Use of PublishingLayoutPage instead of TemplateRedirectionPage in custom default.aspx Serge Tremblay MVP SharePoint

Here are few suggested fixes for such problem, compliments of http://umakanthn.blogspot.com/2008/03/this-page-has-been-modified-since-you.html: Fix 1: If you have the page display problem after installing SP1, follow the instructions below: Replace Page language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingLayoutPage, Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing,Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" metarogid="SharePoint.WebPartPage.Document" meta:webpartpageexpansion="full" with Page language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.TemplateRedirectionPage, Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=12.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" metarogid="SharePoint.WebPartPage.Document" meta:webpartpageexpansion="full" Fix 2: open the page in SharePoint designer and add the below script “ MSO_PageHashCode clearing script” : <script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”> if(document.getElementById(“MSO_PageHashCode”)) { document.getElementById(“MSO_PageHashCode”).value=”"; } </script> Fix 3: While trying to edit the pages created in the publishing sites, you get this error. When you use publishing in Sharepoint, you have a pages library with pages that have a page layout. These page layouts need to inherit from Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingLayoutPage and not from Microsoft.Sharepoint.Pages.WebpartPages. You need to insert the pages in the pages library with a Page Layout. The generic ONET.XML looks like this: " Module Path="" Url="$Resources:cmscore,List_Pages_UrlName;" Name="DefaultBlank File Url="default.aspx" Level="Approved" Type="GhostableInLibrary Property Name="Title" Value="Default Property Name="ContentType" Value="$Resources:cmscore,contenttype" You have to add a property to the page you are adding. That property is called ‘PublishingPageLayout’ and should have the page layout you want to use as the value. The page layout that you want to use should inherit from Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingLayoutPage, and most reside in the masterpages gallery of your site collection. ONET.XML, after modifying: " Module Path="" Url="$Resources:cmscore,List_Pages_UrlName;" Name="DefaultBlank File Url="default.aspx" Level="Approved" Type="GhostableInLibrary Property Name="PublishingPageLayout" Value="~SiteCollection/_catalogs/masterpage/WelcomeLinks.aspx, ~SiteCollection/_catalogs/masterpage/Contact.aspx Property Name="ContentType" Value="$Resources:cmscore,contenttype_pagelayout_name;"> Leonid Lyublinski Wizard of MOSS

Thank you i will try those suggestions