Wordpress live build not mirroring dev build - php

I built a Wordpress site locally using MAMP, where I set up a page with a custom page template which displays a custom post type in a certain format. When I moved everything across to the live server, the custom page template doesn't work as I expected, and just shows what I assume is a default posts archive page (see example: http://www.hiblio.tv/rewind). What's weird is that if I set up a new page with a different permalink, it works fine (example: http://www.hiblio.tv/archive).
I've tried deleting both pages, removing them from the trash and starting again, but whatever I do, I can't get the page to display properly with the 'Rewind' url, which is where I need it to go. Any ideas?

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I have a Wordpress site that it is working perfectly with a bunch of posts and pages.
I have recently started a process to migrate the contents from another website and this has added ~16,000 pages and ~100,000 posts to the site.
Now, in the admin dashboard, when I go to the page list or I try to edit a page, it takes ages to load or stops loading because the timeout is fired. This is not happening with the posts, I can open the post list and edit any without issues. The frontend is working fine.
I'm starting to believe that Wordpress might not be able to manage that quantity of pages. Is there a solution to this? Replace Wordpress with another CMS like Drupal or Joomla is my latest option.
I also tried to tune mySQL, disable all the plugins (I only have a few), etc. with no luck at all.
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When I use the default setting for permalinks, everything works just fine.
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