Why is Magento 1.4 including javascript files by filesystem path?

Question

I am in the process of testing a Magento 1.3 site using Magento 1.4. I am seeing very weird and inconsistent behavior. Instead of including the URL of my javascript files, M

Answer 1

I had the same problem and came up with the following solution:

1. Verify that the permissions on media/js belong to the same user that the magento installation's folder is.
2. Clean the CSS/JS cache using the admin.

The combination of the two actually got things back to normal.