EIS : parent child - member load gives duplicate across dimensions message

I am trying to do member load from EIS (version7.1) desktop using an ASO metaoutline. The outline does notget built properly for one of the dimensions. Message log shows one of the values is duplicate but there areno duplicate values. message log shows the sql similar to : ( backend database isOracle 9.2.0.4 connected with odbc/OCI) SELECT /*+ */ PARENT_ID, CHILD_ID, ALIAS_NAME,SEQUENCE_NUMBER from DIM1 order by 4 ASC Example data is:CHILD_ID PAREN_ID SEQUENCE_NUMBERROOT 1L1_1 ROOT 2L1_2 ROOT 3L1_3 ROOT 4L2_1 L1_3 5L2_2 L1_3 6L1_4 ROOT 7L1_5 ROOT 8 Message log shows the following line twice:Member "L1_3" is duplicate across all dimensions.Member "L1_3" is duplicate across all dimensions. I checked all the dimensions and member value is unique acrossall dimensions. Outline gets created as follows: ( L1_1, L1_2 and L1_3 show upas siblings to DIM1 instead of children). Outline DIM1 L1_2 L1_3 L1_4 L1_5 L1_1 L1_2 L1_3 Dimension has recursion defined in the model with PARENT_ID asparent column and CHILD_ID as Child column.

Thanks John - still not quite working
I should give another detail / extra complexity
The "Geographic Location" dimensions looks like this:
"Geographic Location" (Gen 1)
"United States" (Gen 2)
"SC" (Gen 3)
"Unique Facility 1", "Unique Facility 2" etc (Gen 4)
The data I have would be for Facility 1, Facility 2 which are unique member names which just happen to roll up under SC in the outline. I would have thought it would just load directly to those members without needing to specify their parent values.
Do I need to specify [Geographic Location].[United States].[SC].[Facility 1] ? This seems like it's something that needs to be done in the source file rather than using the prefix/suffix features of the Rules File.

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One of the motivations for my post is to know what other people think without affecting their minds with my approach. I don't want to skew anybody's mind into my solution which works, but it's not effective. I don't mind showing it but I kindly ask you to think about the problem before I post it. Diversity of approaches helps to distill the best one.
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There is no exact result I expect. There are many results which are correct and acceptable. They all must follow the rules described at the beginning.
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