Did you ever figure this out? I did a quick search and this seems kind of old.
Anyways, I also do
not have our site in catalog mode. We appeared to have corrupted assets table from somewhere along the upgrade path. I bought the ACL Manager and it seems to have fixed that but I still have a couple problems. One is missing the Add to Cart button altogether.
The site is quite small so if I HAVE to rebuild it I can but, well, you know.
An example:
http://jeanag.com/index.php/shop/products/bottoms/boy-shortAny insight is greatly appreciated.
Best-
Eric