Sorry I've been so slow in responding to you.
If you check here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...ner47&page=141
around post 1403, srturner47 lists some fixes for some long standing apple zen issues. I've applied them to my test site: www.zencart137.jadetrue.com.... SO let me know if my test site doesn't have the same issues as you're having, and if doesn't have those issues, you may want to try applying his fixes.
I'll also be updated apple zen soon with these fixes!
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