Absolute Container List Problems

Hi all,

I have a homepage.jsp which declares four containers:

    A container for headers.
    A container for the navigation "first level" links.
    A footer links container.
    A copyright container.

The other templates want to display the header, footer, navigation and 
copyright declared in the homepage. Where the navigation is concerned: 
The homepage stores the first level links along with a colour, whilst 
all other pages just contain a navigation list container storing page 
references to direct children.

The none homepage templates are having trouble displaying engines for 
the homepage declared content. The content, including links etc display 
ok proving that these other templates can see the homepage's container 
lists. I run into problems when I use the jahia action menu's on them. 
When I click the action menu I get a hibernate ObjectNotFoundException. 
In addition when I bring up the engine for a link for containerlist for 
example, the edit box is too short obsecuring the fields inside. In 
addition the text at the top reads ID of "" [0]. This is usually fixed 
when I use the workflow screen to validate the changes but I am still 
getting problems else where with the hibernate.objectnotfoundexception.

My question... Does anyone know why this is happening? Why should 
accessing a container declared on another template be a problem? Do you 
need to "declare" the container on ALL the templates that require to use 
it, or is this not required for absolute containers.

Thanks,

Richard.