Breadcrumbs / pathway problem [help!]

Joomla pathway / breadcrumbs don't display correctly on some content items.

Using Joomla 1.0 and am using the following components:
- extend menu + extend menu pathway
- iJoomla survey
- Jpromoter
- JCE admin
- xmap sitemap
- swMenuFree (not using it, will be removed shortly)

I'm not using joomla's root/core "mainmenu" menu instead I've created a new menu called "mymenu".
Menus and submenus work perfectly, the first 50 content items show the right breadcrumbs path.
New content items show the right path as well.

Now there is apparently a gray area of content items that I deleted and recreated, those keep showing only "Home" in the pathway (non active link). Now these content items are unpublished in the menumanager (list of faq items). If I even enable those content items by publishing them they still keep showing "Home" in the pathway.

I have a feeling that it might have something to do with double content Itemid's or id's not sure my tech knowledge doesn't reach that far.

1. how do I get rid of the incorrect "Home" in the pathway for those "bad" content items (tried recreating them several times and made new links as well, didn't help.

2. Is there a way to unpublish the menu items and still get a correct pathway?

3. how can I modify the pathway to get path's to sections and or categories instead. I just want to be able to manipulate it for those bad content items to show something more meaning full than a unlinked "Home" path.

Any suggestion are welcome!

Joomla Rocks!

Regards,
Sean