[support] Menus corrupted - Help!

[A-NO-NE Music]

One of the sites I manage didn't take Drupal 5>6 well.  This is my 3rd site doing this, always follow the posted instruction carefully, and nothing was out of ordinary.

I got so many duplicated (or some of them are triplicated) admin menu items outside of Administer menu.  If I install a new module, it shows up under Navigation menu instead of under Administer menu.  What this means is that it won't show up under http://mysite.com/admin (I didn't know they were directly linked).

Ran update.php like a mad man.
Emptied every possible caches manually but to no avail.
Optimize DB using DB Maintenance module but no effect.

Then I noticed more than half of the menu items have "Reset".  So I clicked them all.  Every time I click Reset, the shown menu items changes inconsistently.  I went along and clicked them all, only to find more than half of what supposed to be are now gone.

Running update.php put me right back to where I started: duplicated and triplicated admin menu items.

I posted this here a few weeks ago but didn't get any response.  I wanted to post at DO but couldn't figure out where to post.  Any suggestion would be appreciate it.


--
- Hiro

Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston
http://a-no-ne.com   http://anonemusic.com