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[Sally]

Thanks for the replies! I'll check out both the flatten layer option and release to layers. It is definatly not the layer being turned down hehe.
The first set of files we got in that were literally 1500 I wrote off as probably an export gone wrong from some manner of software. The 2nd two sets, I learned today, are 2 different clients but it was the same designer. Ah HA! Not one of our cleaner ones. The files are like a history lesson in how they were built. 17 designs. The first set that arrived was nearly perfectly sequential- 1-45 with objects grouped in various layers. As the designer moved on, they started moving up the numbers and renaming them as UPC, NLEA etc. But if you turn down the layers you can find the rest of the numbered ones. Then even some more numbered layers nested under that and finally the individual bases.
I usually tidy up files as: Our Die layer, Printing Marks, Text, Misc Graphics, Background image. For most files I can just unlock and unhide everything, select all and use the selection point in the layers palette to move them onto one layer so I can watch what they do.
This set, unhide revealed a nice hodge-podge of thrown away design ideas. Boxes. text. Ghosts. The layers weren't turned off mind you. These were HIDDEN objects ontop of working layers. And when I export them using the Esko .EPF option it busts 2-3 of the layers back out upon importing into Packedge.
And again, it RE-numbers them sequentially.
Now that I think of it, I wonder if I've also just received my first CS2 files...