What I've resorted to most recently is:
1 - copy/pasting templates and resources into a plain text file
2 - dropping all tables in my mysql database
3 - wiping out all files in the directory
4 - doing a from-scratch install of modx 2.1.3 adv
5 - avoided installing packages
6 - activated Friendly URLs in the System Settings grid
7 - pointed the Site Start Document to #2
8 - made certain that .htaccess file matched .htaccess file for another modx site installed along side this one which does work
9 - made three documents, each with links to the others
10- double-checked that the links generated were formated properly:
http://alpha-byte.ca/home.html for example
11- and almost cried when, after starting on document 2 as expected, document 1's content comes up for all other links.
I have
http://diebot.org/ which does FURL's flawlessly and
http://alpha-byte.ca/ which only works with index.php?id=n even though FURL's are on.
Thoughts? Questions?