Just wanted to see if anyone else is having similar issues.

I recently upgraded to the latest JoomSEF from 1.5 (which was working GREAT.) I am running Joomla 1.0.13. When I upgraded, here are some issues I faced:

1. JomComment no longer works. It is rendered useless, even when \"skipped\" in the control panel. Even the guys from Azrul.com are stumped on this one and say they have other reports of this with JoomSEF upgrade.

2. My site was constantly re-directing to the home page (index.php) when any menu item linked to a component. (For example...when I link to \"My Blog\" component it would re-direct to the home page.) This was acting even more strangely than that - I linked to my feedburner feed and it redirected to my home page - VERY strange behavior. (Again - the htaccess was not altered with upgrade and 1.5 worked beautifully before. Nothing else changed except JoomSEF upgrade.)

3. Simply typing my URL showed up as a 404 error. It was as if the index.php didn't exist. (Unless something else was redirecting to it...:)

I eventually deleted JoomSEF from my site and downgraded to 1.5, which is once more working beautifully.

Anyone else having these issues?

I also upgraded through the admin of Joomla from Artio and the two buttons I had
wrapping my Amazon Affiliate sites are now links that duplicate the first wrapper button on
my menu, hence I unpublished the other wrap buttons. I have no other components on the
site that work with SEO, so I point my troubles to JoomSEF. I do not enjoy the admin update
feature as it appears to allow me to have bleeding edge releases. I need a way to back up
as I did not have 1.5 registered version sitting around for me to re-install. Please advise - I
would like to have a way to download previous registered versions - as I am not wanting to
be a BETA tester. Please help...