MOSS Publishing Infrastructure feature causing Link Issues

It turns out that MOSS publishing Infrastructure feature can cause link issues. Innitially I deactivated it to add sub sites and have them show up as tabs to the main site. It turns out that deactivating it and activating again can cause major issues with the Quick Launch navigation links of SharePoint sites. 

  Most headers in the Quick Lauch had a repeating parameter. It was the right parameter but it was just repeating over and over. When I tried to change it manually by going though "Site Actions>>Site Settings>>Navigation" I had a SharePoint Error and my changes in the Navigation did not persist. I was unable to change the Navigation, I had broken links everywhere.

  I could not find a solution for this, I basically had to start from scratch again. 

this is what I ended up doing:

        My Solution:

   

1) Deactivate the MOSS Publishing Infrastructure Feature - notice how the subsites of subsites will appear as tabs for the main site.

2) Erase all the troublesome Links from the Quick Launch navigation section (Site Actions>>Site Settings>>Quick Launch)

3) Activate the Publishing Infrastructure Feature - sites and sub sites will revert back to the desired navigation.

4) add the links and the headings manually (Site Actions>>Site Settings>>Navigation)

Not fun!

Juan