Remote Portal Role is displaying "null" on the TLN (FPN)

Hi All,
I have created a role on my Producer portal which is called by my Consumer Portal. Although this role has worked in the past and displayed it's proper name, it is now displaying "null" as are all the links within it.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
If you require more information please let me know.
Oloy.

Hi Again Jo,
Yes, both of the Portals are currently using SP14.
The Producer portal is working perfectly fine but the consumer is displaying null for all content.
Is a Portal-restart the only known solution for the issue? The thing is we have a number of key users trying to access the system at the moment and I would prefer to avoid that if I can.
Thanks for your speedy responses too,
Oloy.

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