Hi Chris,
Sorry for the late reply- I have had to turn my attention to another project over the past few days.
I spent some time today going over your suggestions and checked everything. I have enabled WP_DEBUG and installed the Debug Bar plugin but nothing is showing up in terms of errors. It's really strange.
I also checked the browser console and see nothing of note, though I'm not to familiar with the debugging tools it has, but I know usually if there are issues of any kind they show up in RED in the console drawer... Let me know if there are specific tests or anything I could be running in there.
I installed another plugin that deleted the DB transients and optimized the DB supposedly but that did not solve the issue.
I don't have any plugins that are doing any caching that I'm aware of - how would I manually clear my WP cache? I added the wp_cache_flush function to my functions.php file and reloaded the page a few times but that didn't seem to do anything.
The only other thing I can think of that was changed since the lat time I ported the database back down to my local machine was that we password protected our live dev server using the hosting CP (MediaTemple). could that be causing the issue?
Also I noticed the "owner" group of the root directory of the dev server is different that the the rest of the directories in the WP install. The "OID" is the same but the"GID" is different - is that something to worry about? Is it related to the password protection I mentioned above?
Thanks again for your help!
