Problems w/Frames in W2K3 w/Front Page extensions

Frames display issue in IIS 6 w/Frontpage

[mymo4usa]

Upgrading a W2K server to W2K3. On only one (of many) of its websites enabled with Front Page extensions, which uses Frames.

When a website is published with Front Page to the server, all Target Frame/Target settings which are blank are changed by the publishing process to the word "contents" This cause all of the frames to display in the wrong frame.

I have tried:
1. Copying the site, then upgrading extensions to 2002. Frames display fine until the upgrade happens.

2. Republish with Front Page. Same problem.

3. Forcing values into the Target Frame field. They are still changed to the value "contents"

4. Tried FP 2000 and FP 2003, both see the same problem.

5. Created new empty website and published, same problem.

6. There are a dozen other Frame based Front page sites on this server and none experience this problem.

7. On a couple of selected pages, the value "contents" will sometimes show up on my source files, even thought the only publishing is outbound. This only happens with FP 2003 publishing and not 2000.

Been trying everything. Anyone seen this or have any ideas?

thanks