@suv THANK YOU! That certainly took care of the problem. Now if only I could fully understand why, but I'll worry about that another time.

Thanks again, I'm one happy camper.

@xav thanks for your suggestion. I tried that and it does work, but when I ungroup them, the text and path fly apart again :( Brynn, I've zipped up the file and attached it. It's 1 MB unzipped. Thanks for your help. EDIT: Problem solved; file deleted. The new layer (containing only one item) is call...

Thanks but it contains a lot of confidential information (names and birth dates) that I don't want to release to the general public. I'll see about editing it first.

Greetings, I'm using Inkscape version 0.48.2 r9819 on windows 7 (64 bit) operating system. I've created a rather large file that contains strictly paths and text (genealogy tree with names on paths). The file is currently 18000+ lines (roughly 1500 name-path combinations). It has 9 layers. Initially...