[Lynne]

Are you using the datastore (check in your config.php):

PHP Code:

    // ****** DATASTORE CACHE CONFIGURATION *****
    // Here you can configure different methods for caching datastore items.
    // vB_Datastore_Filecache  - to use includes/datastore/datastore_cache.php
    // vB_Datastore_APC - to use APC
    // vB_Datastore_XCache - to use XCache
    // vB_Datastore_Memcached - to use a Memcache server, more configuration below
$config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Filecache'; 


If so, did you make sure the datastore folder is chmod to 777? Is the datastore_cache file being updated?