Ok, I was on a development build of 2.64. I DL a newer version and I think I found the problem, but I’m not sure. On the texture coordinate node there is a new tick box called “from dupli”. I was getting the same problem you were describing. I unwrapped and saw the texture in textured view but not rendered view. Tick the “from dupli” box and it should render…It seems this will have to be done for any UV textures from now on. I don’t know why they would change this, but it is confusing at first.
So does the issue still exist or is it solved?