On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Glen Callaghan wrote:

Sorry Aditya, my comments on the \noexpand command weren't quite accurate.

In the earlier version of simple-slides, leaving out the \noexpand working, and the header and footer information worked properly.

In the new version (with the IncludePicture fix), leaving out \noexpand just results in the text "empty" appearing at 3 (of the 4) header/footer positions.

Is it something to do with using variables instead of moduleparameters? .......... not that I know what they are :-)

Yes. It should have been \getvariables{...}{...}. I forgot to correct that. Check out the newer version on github. Thanks for reporting these bugs. Aditya