Hi John,
thanks for your reply. The courses are still editable by the Administrator User. Just not the tutors of that course!! Have removed all role assignments and re-set them again (using the administrator account) but with no joy. The only fix at this time seems to be moving the course back to where it was created.
Cheers,
Ross
Hi,
I've got a strange problem where if I move a course between course categories I can no longer edit the contents of that course! I can still see the contents of the course but the editing buttons don't appear when I click "Turn Editing On", although I can add new content. NB: course can always be edited by Moodle Administrator.
I'm currently running Moodle 1.9.2 (20080820).
Cheers,
Ross
That works for us also.
Thanks Stoke SixthForm!
We are having exactly the same problem - so at least you are not alone!! 
We are running Version 1.7.1+ (2006101010) and are currently investigating if upgrading Moodle will resolve the problem. We noticed that if you remove any of the resources all the links and icons come back. Not that this helps much… a course with only 8 – 12 resources is no use to us!
We are fortunate enough to have a test bed system and have found that this issue exists on this system as well. The interestingly the system are different though. The test system is running MySQL where as our live system is running MS SQL. The version of Moodle is the same on both though so I’ve checked Moodle Tracker although I cannot find any mention of this or a similar problem.
Thanks Heather,
We are just starting to use Moodle but SMT seems to be reluctant to give support staff access, although I think it is the perfect platform to put support documentation on etc like you mentioned.