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In my experience, Dreamweaver likes to be re-installed every few months. I am used to exporting/importing the site definitions, but recently got burned by forgetting about a default preference. Talk about a smooth pickpocket. I only caught it the next day after noticing a sharp decline in affiliate commission.
DW has long had an annoying habit of incrementing form field names to make them unique. While the idea may have philosophical merit, in reality it breaks shopping cart forms and affiliate search forms, costing time if corrected, money if not corrected.
Dreamweaver MX has added a line item specifically for disabling this 'feature' in the preferences. That line is in bold below:
Re-writing option in Dreamweaver MX:
( ) Fix Invalidly Nested and Unclosed Tags
( ) Rename Form Items when Pasting
( ) Remove Extra Closing Tags
( ) Never Rewrite Code in Files with Extensions _______
Earlier versions do not have this specific option, although there is an option to turn off all re-writing.
If you use Dreamweaver, and have never disabled the default re-write settings, you might want to search for form errors. You can start by searching for this by adding a "2" to the name/id of a common form field. For example, a copied form containing a field "pid" might become "pid2" or later "pid22" or maybe even "pid3" of higher.
HTH,
Sean
