Upon updating to Max 5 I have had problems when loading patches that have [slide] in them- The object has no inlets or outlets when loaded and the only way that I have been able to fix the problem is by changing [slide] to a different object and then back to [slide] (which sometimes works) or restarting Max.

The [slide] object in the help file always loads correctly, but any patches I have created that have [slide] in them have problems, which leads me to believe it has something to do with the location of my files- although they are within the Max search path.

I have attached a picture of a patch that has multiple [slide] objects and that shows the error messages that occur when loading it.

slide-loading-with-no-inlets-or-outlets

Are you sure you don't have any abstraction named slide.maxpat in your search paths?

I did- I changed the name and all is working well!

[slide] loading with no inlets or outlets