Hi Tom,
I went to quick edit and the template field was blank. I set it to default template then went into edit and tried again to set footer widget to 0 and the same thing happened, it reset to global footer widget settings.
I have a plug-in installed from Benchmark Email. It adds a function that allows the author to send page update notices to a selected email list on an offsite email service. Could that be causing a problem?
Thanks,
John