Here is the code to produce the issue: (remove link plugin to see display function correctly)
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js"></script>
<script>
var tinymceConfigs = [ {mode : "none",
theme : "advanced",
plugins : "safari,pagebreak,style,layer,table,save,advhr,advimage,link,emotions,iespell,inlinepopups,insertdatetime,preview,media,searchreplace,print,contextmenu,paste,directionality,fullscreen,noneditable,visualchars,nonbreaking,xhtmlxtras,template",
theme_advanced_buttons1 : "save,newdocument,|,bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,styleselect,formatselect,fontselect,fontsizeselect",
theme_advanced_buttons2 : "cut,copy,paste,pastetext,pasteword,|,search,replace,|,bullist,numlist,|,outdent,indent,blockquote,|,undo,redo,|,link,unlink,anchor,image,cleanup,help,code,|,insertdate,inserttime,preview,|,forecolor,backcolor",
theme_advanced_buttons3 : "tablecontrols,|,hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,sub,sup,|,charmap,emotions,iespell,media,advhr,|,print,|,ltr,rtl,|,fullscreen",
theme_advanced_buttons4 : "insertlayer,moveforward,movebackward,absolute,|,styleprops,|,cite,abbr,acronym,del,ins,attribs,|,visualchars,nonbreaking,template,pagebreak",
theme_advanced_toolbar_location : "top",
theme_advanced_toolbar_align : "left",
theme_advanced_statusbar_location : "bottom",
theme_advanced_resizing : true,
content_css : "css/content.css",
template_external_list_url : "lists/template_list.js",
external_link_list_url : "lists/link_list.js",
external_image_list_url : "lists/image_list.js",
media_external_list_url : "lists/media_list.js",
template_replace_values : {
username : "Some User",
staffid : "991234"
}}];
function tinyfy(settingid,el_id) {
alert('here');
tinyMCE.settings = tinymceConfigs[settingid];
tinyMCE.execCommand('mceAddControl', false, el_id);
}
</script>
</head>
</html>
<body onLoad="tinyfy(0,'editor');">
<form>
<textarea id="editor" rows="15" cols="55" >asdfsadfsafsfd</textarea>
</form>
</body></html>
