On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:29:03 -0700, "Philip J. Hollenback" <philiph@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> Hm no luck.  I tried the updated presentation.org and posted the
> resulting pdf on scribd:
> 
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/36035983/Presentation
> 
> some interesting problems:
> 
> 1. title missing from title page
> 2. @important@ is rendered as @important@
> 3. missing QED image
> 
> and of course no blocks.  I think something is going horribly wrong with
> the conversion to latex here but I'm unsure what.  Is there some
> debugging I can turn on to try to figure out what isn't being loaded? 
> I've definitely got the #+startup: beamer line now.

What version of org are you using?  This is very puzzling.  The file I
sent you works perfectly fine for me...  and I have no special
settings in my configuration that relate to beamer.