Lloyd said:

I guess the problem started when I went to the original Public Discussions post under SITS and deleted one of the subposts. Then I went to the copy in my Sandbox and the above problems occurred.

If you can duplicate this problem, reducing it to the bare minimum number of steps, I'd love to have a crack at it. All of what you're describing "should" work, including handling recursion. But you might have stumbled on a way of doing things that I simply have never tried. It's a common problem with developers — they know how the software works, so when they use the software themselves, they go about it in a way that the software can handle, and they don't realize that there are still gotchas in the software. So the developers have to rely on non-developers to figure out ways of breaking things. ;)