I created drop down menus using multiblog for fast access to category archives in other blogs on the install.
After upgrading to 4.2 rc1 I lose some categories after publishing various blogs.
this is the dropdown code I am using. It was working fine with 4.1
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I am not sure your code posted correctly. Can you try again. Remember the forums use markdown syntax. Simply indenting code fragments by 4 spaces will cause the intended content to be HTML escaped and wrapped in a <code><pre> tag.
I haven't tried upgrading this blog to 4.2 release yet. So I'm not sure if this is still an issue with the release version.