Sandra,

I don't have an answer but I have had the same problem and it seems to be stemming from the CatLinks table. Below is what I observed.

• I had a number of categories with items created.
• I deleted them from the Category Browser and the CatLinks table reflected 1362 before the delete
• Rebuild, Repair
• Create new Categories
• grandtotal count was off by 1362 once I imported items into the new categories.
• LinkID an CatID in CatLinks table did not start at 0 or 1363 (not sure how it's supposed to index after deleting categories)

That's as far as I've gotten on my testing. I was going to try and replicate the problem but haven't had a chance to try it..

Maybe that helps some of the guru's out???
Tony