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The hosting provider was able to fix the issue by rebooting the server. Not sure whether this error was connected to using the plugin or not.

WPML costs 20 or 60 Euros, depending on which version you need. But you will spend that amount of money many times over in wasted time, if you don’t set your multilingual blog up properly. In my opinion, investing into something like WPML make sense financially.

@henkholland: Just to clarify: I didn’t go back to the list of saved drafts (edit.php).

From within the add new post form (post-new.php) I clicked save, then preview. I then closed the preview window and then tried to publish the post from the form.

The same problem occurs when I try it with an existing post (post.php). And, as I said, it happens with pages as well.

I’m using Chrome 4.0.249.89 unknown (38071) on Windows Vista Home Premium SP 1 at home. At work I’m using XP. That means, in total I have been able to replicate the problem on three PCs using two different operating systems and on two blogs running WP 2.9.2 which are physically on entirely different servers. I posted the problem on Twitter and got a response that someone has the same problem on Mac.

Thanks RVoodoo, good suggestion. I tried it on a different computer and had the same problem.

I think I might have identified the cause of the problem:

This problem only occurs when I’m using Chrome (my default browser). Everything works fine when I use Firefox.

I was able to replicate the problem with Chrome on a different blog that is physically on an entirely different server running WP 2.9.2 as well.

Apparently there is a problem with Chrome and WP.

I found that temporarily disabling all plugins solves this problem for me.

I disable them, run the update and then go to “recently active” and enable them again. Done.

First of all – thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my problem.

I have completed all steps mentioned in your post concurrently but the problem still persists :-(.

In addition to not being able to publish after the preview I’m also not able to save a draft after the preview.

I have almost the same problem. In my case I always get to “unpacking” before it freezes.