I've got an intranet site up and running that was started w/Drupal 4.7.something. I installed, at that time, the node privacy byrole module [1] to control who can access what. Eventually, I got around to updating the site to Drupal 5. Before I started that process, I disabled all contributed modules, including node privacy byrole. I was pretty sure I followed all the steps necessary to disable that module, but I must have missed something, because now no access control module I've tried will work.
What I've done so far is to install and uninstall Taxonomy Access Control Lite [2] (several times), Taxonomy Access Control [3] (a few times), Path Access [4] and one or two others to no avail. I've followed the advice of the Persistent 'Welcome to Drupal' for anonymous users [5] Troubleshooting FAQ node, and I've clicked the Rebuild permissions button (more than once) on admin/content/node-settings. I'm assuming something's not right with my installation, but nothing I've found so far has provided a solution.
I'd really like to install and use the tac_lite module, because I think it suites my needs just fine, and it's not nearly as complicated or difficult to use as some of the others. At this point, however, the priority is to be able to control who can access what.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can try to fix this problem?
[1] http://drupal.org/project/node_privacy_byrole [2] http://drupal.org/project/tac_lite [3] http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access [4] http://drupal.org/project/path_access [5] http://drupal.org/node/64114