For a book, I've got a master document that includes five child documents. Now using 1.6, I've stopped using funny tricks to get included macros to work and set a default master document for the included documents. This works well so far, except that I'm getting crazy numbers in the footnotes. For example, in the first included document, the first footnote is numbered 5383! I've got a lot of references, but not that many! The first footnote in the second file is 2109; in the third, 4603; in the fourth, 727; there are no notes in the last one.
Unsetting the default master and opening the children from within the master still causes the problem.
If I add new footnotes, I get weirdly changing numbers, too. In this particular document, if I add a new footnote somewhere, the numbers jump by forty. If I then delete that footnote, the numbers jump by 39. And yes, there are 39 footnotes in the document. So it looks like some counter isn't being reset somewhere when we're dealing with child and master documents.
Richard