Portal updating inconsistent

Hi,
I have run into a major issue with EP 5.0 level 5.0.  I have updated the title of an iView, and the change is not showing up on all machines.  This is a change that was done last week.  Also, we have another issue in that a user, who has access to a certain iView, cannot see the iView.  It does not matter what machine the user is logged into, the iView does not show up, but it does for other employees. 
Why are changes reflected on some machines, but not others?  All the iViews are set to bypass the iview server, and all caching settings for the iViews are turned off. 
One last question.  Some of the iViews are not showing up with the standard portal theme behind it.  Example:  take an iView that uses hbj:tableView.  Some of the iViews are showing up using the branding, but some are showing up using a totally different font, with the buttons represented as text, and no visual of a table.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
TIA!!
Best regards,
Kevin

Hmm ... does <CTRL><F5> at the client make any difference? That does a full reload.
Otherwise it might be the isolation level of the iView (there could be a user-specific server-side cache). Try clearing the server cache. You indicated there was no iView caching, but your other problem seems to indicate that CSS might be cached too.
For a setting that that will always grab what resides on the portal, there's Note 605662. Or you could try adding the following metatag in the header section of the page:
<HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
Note that the Web page may <b>still</b> be cached in the Temporary Internet Files folder. See the MS-KB for a work-around:
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q222064>
Sean

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