diff -Nru orig/cookbook/attachtable/attachtable.php new/cookbook/attachtable/attachtable.php
--- orig/cookbook/attachtable/attachtable.php	2009-05-31 12:14:03.000000000 +0200
+++ new/cookbook/attachtable/attachtable.php	2012-12-24 10:15:18.490498317 +0100
@@ -166,8 +166,11 @@
 			$prev_LinkFunctions_Attach = $LinkFunctions['Attach:'];
 			$LinkFunctions['Attach:'] = 'AttachtableCountUploadLinks';
 			foreach( $ls as $pn ) {
-				 $pg = RetrieveAuthPage( $pn, 'read', FALSE, READPAGE_CURRENT );
-				 $html = MarkupToHTML( $pn, $pg['text'] );
+				$pg = RetrieveAuthPage( $pn, 'read', FALSE, READPAGE_CURRENT );
+				$text = $pg['text'];
+				//avoid recursive rendering
+				$text = str_replace ("(:attachtable", "(:xx_attachtable_xx", $text);
+				$html = MarkupToHTML( $pn, $text );
 			}
 			$LinkFunctions['Attach:'] = $prev_LinkFunctions_Attach;
 		} else {