To clarify for other readers - my "fix" is not so much a fix as a method - the only method I'm aware of to create a TOC.

In short, to create a TOC, I have always had to create a page of text links to all the pages in a chapter that make up the TOC. This page is always TOC sort order 1.

The next step then is to assign a TOC sort order of 2, 3, 4, and so on to each of the pages in the chapter that comprise the TOC. Here is an example of the TOC that results from using this method.

I have never seen my cart automatically create a TOC simply based on EZ page settings alone. Actual content on the first page of the TOC has always been required for the TOC to be created.

In idc's case...when he creates several EZ pages in the same chapter and assigns them a TOC sort order, the TOC automatically appears in his store so long as the pages that make up the TOC are text based. If the pages that make up the TOC are links - then the TOC is not automatically created.

I don't know how idc's TOC is being automatically created under some circumstances but not under other circumstances, so I can't speak to that and whether or not it's a bug or intentional on the part of the programmers.