Acquia: The S-Files: When node_load won't load, and the anonymous user has vanished
By Planet Drupal - Posted on 21 January 2010
Tech Support Case Studies
Use these two SQL commands to repair your Drupal 6 site to restore the anonymous user database record:
INSERT INTO users (name, mail) VALUES ('', '');UPDATE users SET uid=0 WHERE name='';
The symptoms you'll see that tip you off that this is needed:
node_load() is not loading nodes that you can prove are in the node table.
node_delete() is not deleting ...
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