phantom share: can't view, delete or create new one

I finally got fed up having to ssh into the box, create the shares under c and ftp, create a link in the root then go back to frontview to assign a user to the ftp site so I reset the box back to factory defaults. Spent several hours setting up (through frontview this time) the ftp sites backup again, setting up the users and assigning them to the ftp and copying the data back to their respective ftp site. Everything worked well until a week later I went to setup a new ftp site using frontview and were back to the same problem. You add a new share nothing shows up. There is a listing in the samba.conf for it but nothing in /c or /home/ftp. I have to manually create them then it shows up in frontview so I can assign users.
If I run the CreateMissingSharePaths_0.1.bin the shares are created properly but I dont want to have to reboot the appliance every time I want to create a share.