<default>
<!-- Mage_Catalog -->
<reference name="top.menu">
<block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.topnav" template="catalog/navigation/top.phtml"/>
</reference>
<reference name="left">
<block type="catalog/product_compare_sidebar" before="cart_sidebar" name="catalog.compare.sidebar" template="catalog/product/compare/sidebar.phtml"/>
</reference>
<reference name="footer_links">
<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="catalog" ifconfig="catalog/seo/site_map">
<label>Site Map</label>
<url helper="catalog/map/getCategoryUrl" />
<title>Site Map</title>
</action>
</reference>
<block type="catalog/product_price_template" name="catalog_product_price_template" />
</default>
This is a custom theme code which was working with magento 1.8.1.0
but when I upgraded the magento version to 1.9.2.2 it stopped working.
Checked everything if removal of this block is called or anything else that would hamper the rendering but was unable to find any such issue.
Earlier: http://awesomescreenshot.com/0e35kbq2b1
Now: http://awesomescreenshot.com/0795kbq5c3
Apart from these a lot hell of other things also stopped working.
But I tried to fix few of them but I think still there may be many prevailing, if you know the drastic effects of this upgrade from 1.8.1.0 to 1.9.2.2 please do let me know about other probs that may arise.