After upgrading from version 1.1.6 to 1.2.1, there has been many issus with files not being updated properly.  The new problem deals with when you are editing a product (Catalog -> Manage Products) and you go to the “Categories” link at the left pane, you may see a screen with title “Product Categories” and nothing else.  Refer to pix.

Another system to this problem is that when you are in the Category Manager and you attempt to expand a parent category, you will just get the spinning wheel..and it would run forever.

the fix for both issues is to replace the “head.phtml” inside: magento/app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/page

The fix was found here, but under a different topic: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/27032/P75/#t101188

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Are you sick of seeing that Magento notification always showing up whenever you login to the admin page?  There’s a quick way to disable this feature…I am surprise that it was so hard to google for a solution on this. Am I the only one annoyed by that notification?!

Anyways, the quick fix is the following: go into app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Notification and open up the file: toolbar.php and look for the function: isShow.  If the function returns true that notification box will show up, but if it returns false, the notification will never show up.  So what I have done is change the original code:

public function isShow()
{
if ($this->getRequest()->getControllerName() == ‘notification’) {
return false;
}
if ($this->getCriticalCount() == 0 && $this->getMajorCount() == 0 && $this->getMinorCount() == 0 && $this->getNoticeCount() == 0) {
return false;
}
return true;
}

to always return false:

public function isShow()
{
return false;
}

Hope someone appreciate this fix.  I know I do.

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