Friday 28 March 2008 3:21:25 am

I guess everything under -------- is the update to your post (next time, just reply instead).
You mistake is probably {undef}, witch undefines every variable in the current/same namespace (basically all variables earlier set with def).
So you should have written : {undef $pagelayout_node}

http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/4_0/reference/template_functions/variables/undef

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