With the database records, they are all installed in the database with the same script, so if they are in the configuration table, they should also ne in the configuration_group table. Once there is a record in teh configuration_group, this is used to populate the admin menus.

The records only appear in the database, once the SEO module has been installed, and a page has been visited, and the class initiated for the first time. It may be that this first visit hadn't been completed when you checked into the admin.

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