Drupal Books do not recognise [menupathraw] token

Hello :) I am not sure if this will help or not but I had run into a similar problem as you. It seemed that no matter what token I put in the field it would output to the base URL http://www.example.com/XXXX despite whatever hierarchy I had it in :(

After nearly 3 weeks of debugging the database, PathAuto, Node Hierarchy, and Token I finally figured out that the guilty party is PathAuto!

I'm still fairly new to the whole drupal thing but after some good ol' fashioned trial and error debugging I determined that the fault lies in the pathauto_create_alias() function on Line 293 of pathauto.inc (I'm using: pathauto 6.x-2.x-dev 2009-May-21)

Like I said, I'm still kind of a noob and definitely played around with a few of the modules. At one point during my setup I had played around with the Locale and other language related modules before deciding to nix it until I wanted to devote another summer to implement it lol That being said, I wasn't aware that PathAuto saves a token variable for each language in the database.

PathAuto stores it's token variables in the "variable" table with the prefix of "pathauto_".

As you can see from the code below, if you have any two letter language codes in the variable name (pathauto_node_page_xx_pattern) it will trump every thing else. In my case, it was "pathauto_node_page_xx_pattern" and I am guessing that you will need to change it according to your book module.

Well I deleted all the ones that had the separate language variable, but it still wasn't working. Found out that when you call pathauto_create_alias() with no language variable it looks for "pathauto_node_page__pattern"... which I had in my database :) I'm guessing that it never occurred to them to take out those entries if they were no longer applicable hehe

All this being said, I know I've babbled way too much and I'm sure there is more they can do to fix this issue, but here is a really simple and quick fix to bypass it even if it's in the database! Simply see if the Locale module is enabled :)

I do hope this helps your problem, because god knows I've most certainly been pulling my hair out lol If not, maybe someone else can benefit from this! And at the very least it can be put in a new Dev!

Take Care!

Line: 283

function pathauto_create_alias($module, $op, $placeholders, $src, $entity_id, $type = NULL, $language = '') {

  /* CODE */

  // Retrieve and apply the pattern for this content type
  if (!empty($type)) {
    $pattern = trim(variable_get('pathauto_'. $module .'_'. $type .'_'. $language .'_pattern', ''));            /* Line 293 */
    if (empty($pattern)) {
      $pattern = trim(variable_get('pathauto_'. $module .'_'. $type .'_pattern', ''));
    }
  }
  if (empty($pattern)) {
    $pattern = trim(variable_get('pathauto_'. $module .'_pattern', ''));
  }
  // No pattern? Do nothing (otherwise we may blow away existing aliases...)
  if (empty($pattern)) {
    return '';
  }

  /* CODE */

}

Replace Line 293 with:

    if (module_exists('locale')) {
      $pattern = trim(variable_get('pathauto_'. $module .'_'. $type .'_'. $language .'_pattern', ''));            /* Line 294 */
    }