Thanks for updating r-a-y. I wonder what the actual solution is as JJJ has just firmed up the hack?.
@arunbaaillal that solution does work but only by dint of the fact that this what you can always do with WP, state a template page to be used as front. do you not think it would be better to add the patch to your functions file then you would have a workaround that works for the moment quite satisfactorily.
