What counts as a "fixed range" spell for Persistent Spell?

Question

The Persistent Spell feat in Player's Guide to Faerûn allows a spell to last for 24 hours. The spell to be persisted must have a personal range or fixed range.

I'm having trouble finding a definition of 'fixed range' for a spell. One example given, detect magic, has a range of 60 ft. Are only spells with a non-variable range considered fixed?

Is a spell with range touch considered fixed? While the 3.0 Faerûn campaign setting errata specifically excludes touch spells, 3.5 makes no mention of this.

Answer 1

No.

While the text of the feat is somewhat ambiguous, there are several indications in the rules that touch spells are not valid targets of Persistent Spell:

• If spells with "a fixed range" were intended to include touch spells, why are spells with Personal range called out as allowed? After all, "Range: Personal" is no more variable than "Range: Touch."
• The errata for the book in which Persistent Spell was originally printed, Player's Guide to Faerun, explicitly said that touch spells could not be persisted. While subsequent re-publishings of the spell did not include these changes, they're indicative of what the intent of the feat's wording was.
• Heroes of Battle p. 113 describes the effect of War Weaver's Enlarge Tapestry class feature:

Spells you cast through an eldritch tapestry have their range category increased: touch spells become close range, close-range spells become medium range, and medium-range spells become long range. Long-range spells and spells with fixed ranges are unaffected.

This rule explicitly draws a distinction between touch spells and spells with fixed ranges, and treats them differently, implying that touch spells are not included in the category of spells with fixed ranges.