WordPress MU

Hi all, new to forums and hoping for an answer. I have created a new page, titled it and published it. For some reason the permalink is:

Permalink: http://021connection.com/wpmu/events-3/

I don't know what the -3 signifies. I tried to edit it to just events but when I hit update it reverts back to events-3.

As for the parent attribute, it is set to Main Page (no parent).

A bit confused.

Thank you!!!!

Do you have two previous Pages that also had the events slug? Maybe you made them and then deleted them?

Empty your trash.

*sigh* I knew I forgot to do something this morning before I left the house.

:P

No, the new trash version. if there's a post in there with the same name, a new post will append the numbers.

Hi and thank you all for your replies. While waiting to hear back, I took the initiative and started poking around via myphpadmin ... I may have done something terribly wrong. I found the page and all its revisions in the db and deleted them all ... wiped the db table of any file with that title. So I thought the slate was clean again and I could start all over. I created a new page and called titled it the same as before, Events. Previewed it and it was visible. Published it and now I get a 404. It is in the db, it just can't be found by WPMU ... yet another twist to my saga. Anyone have any ideas. Thank you in advance.

BTW ... how do you empty the WPMU trash?