I use the Admin Links Widget on all my sites. I have discovered, however that it does not function properly in the left sidebar. The function the_id() is not working in the left sidebar (inner and outer bars).

Any ideas on why that function works only in the right sidebars? I'll start digging through the code today and see if I can determine why.

This is only happening with the Atahualpa theme, I'm using 3.5.3.

adding the META widget to the left sidebar works fine for me. Try disabling all your plugins and see if there is a conflict

What version of WP?

I already tested it on a virgin install. No joy with Atahualpa unless I put it in the right sidebar. WP 3.0.1.

The Meta widget works fine but it doesn't have an edit this page option, which is what is not working in the Admin Links Widget, so the Meta widget working doesn't actually help either way.

Well I just tested in with WP 3.0.1, Atahualpa 3.5.3 and it works fine in either the right or left sidebar
What version of the plugin do you have, I used version 1.4.0

Same setup; so, it's likely something odd on my end. I'll dig around some more and see what I can find.