Programatically adding web parts to pages

I am using a site provisioning event receiver and am trying to add the ProjectSummaryWebPart and the GettingStartedWebPart to the page. I am using the code below but when I go browse the page it looks like this. Has anyone had any experience with programmatically
adding these web parts to a page using server side code?
ProjectSummaryWebPart pswp = new ProjectSummaryWebPart
Title = "Project Summary",
ChromeType = PartChromeType.TitleOnly
wpmgr.AddWebPart(pswp, "Header", 0);
GettingStartedWebPart gswp = new GettingStartedWebPart {
ChromeType = PartChromeType.TitleOnly,
Title = "Get Started with your project site",
wpmgr.AddWebPart(gswp, "Header", 1);

Hi,
I can reproduce this issue by adding the Project Summary Web Part into a page, when I change the PartChromeType to “BorderOnly”, the duplicated title will disappear.
Anyway, when editing the page contains the Project Summary Web Part added programmatically, the ribbon will be blocked by an undefined error in projectsummary.js.
As the limited resource we have, I would suggest you open a ticket for this case:
http://support.microsoft.com
Thanks
Patrick Liang
Forum Support
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