Ah, that bug report solved both problems. I added "Input numarticle.inc" to my .layout file. I now get the sliders in "numbering & toc" which were greyed out before. The navigation menu now works as expected.
I'm using a custom .layout file for a style specific to where I work. Simon Georg Baum wrote: > Simon Goodall wrote: > > >>Hmm, the reason for the number being wrong in the outputted DVI appears >>to be because lyx is setting secnumdepth and tocdepth to -1000 in the >>.lyx file while the other files that I have not edited with lyx 1.4 have >>this value set to 3. > > > What document class? See also http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2355 > > > Georg >