If you are publishing through custom workflow step make sure to take care of cluster awarness.Below steps are must & to be honest need a call to access the situation. Please file official support request.#1 Install the hotfixes NPR-3728 and NPR-3729 (to upgrade sling.event and workflow bundles) from...

Aem version? Is it cluster envirnoment?   Entire logs stacktrace helps.

seems server is running on 4502. 80 might have used by other webserver. Try to login from http://host:port/crx/explorer/

are you sure it is parsys or iparsys, Check cq:childEditConfighttp://aemfaq.blogspot.com/2013/05/reorderingmoving-components-in-iparsys.html

OOB should have image component for sightly also.Look into assetshare as an example to add renditions.

Is it rendering properly in OOB image component?

Rich_Clem wrote... Sham HC wrote... Another possibility could be SSO but still uses login token.  might be serving stale. Browser cache issue or webserver caching issue.     Hi I did clear the webserver doc cache out and restart it. Also I don't believe it is stale content as the welcome page ...

Another possibility could be SSO but still uses login token.  might be serving stale. Browser cache issue or webserver caching issue.  

Osgi web console have integration with basic http only. Addidtional with saml integration password is not stored in AEM repository.  You need to develop a plugin using websecurityprovider & not available out of the box.http://felix.apache.org/site/web-console-security-provider.html

From symptoms looks like there is internal implementation to guard against duplicate. Are you sure that for each record you need to pass same value?  If so can you please file daycare with actual requirements.  For now can you change value to be unique and then verify. Additionally you can debug you...