i really wish it would actually rebuild pages when i explicitly tell it to do so.
i just messed with the sort ordering on my archive pages to get them back the way i like it (i must have screwed that up in one of my upgrades), and i had to go through and edit an entry on each damn month's page to get it to actually update the page because just rebuilding didn't actually change anything.
if i was a better person, i might try updating to a newer MT (if there is one, i'm not sure), or poking through the code, but i've spent too much time looking at source code today and i'm tired of it.