Ok I figured out what happened, once I activated WPML, all the topics disappeared from the FAQ topics. I had to recreate them all in english and re-assign FAQ’s to the new topics. Although I cant see the topics in the topic list anymore (the old ones) they still occupy their permalink structure. So if my old topic url was domain.com/bla. “bla” is now taken even though it’s gone from the admin panel. so when I recreated my topic this topic was named bla-2.
I’m thankful this happened on a new site and not a production one, this bug could be a big show stopper if I had 100’s of FAQ’s.
Hope this damn long explanations would make this bug go away in the upcoming versions.
Cheers