diff -r 4629ad98ee88 -r 9cdfe82c56cd includes/render.php
--- a/includes/render.php	Sat Jan 03 17:54:26 2009 -0500
+++ b/includes/render.php	Sat Jan 03 18:11:18 2009 -0500
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@
       unset($perms);
       unset($perms); // PHP <5.1.5 Zend bug
       $perms = $session->fetch_page_acl($page_id, $namespace);
+      if ( !$perms )
+      {
+        $session->init_permissions();
+        $perms = $session->fetch_page_acl($page_id, $namespace);
+      };
     }
     
     if(!$perms->get_permissions('read'))