[eluser]bojack[/eluser]
[quote author="OverZealous" date="1270759431"]Assuming the queries are returning the exact same results, try using include_related without instantiating, and see if that works. If that works, then most likely something is happening on the server that is causing $posts->_instantiations to be unset or set to NULL.[/quote]
Now we are getting somewhere! Running this on both server works: