Autofill Address Bar acting up

Hello,
I was wondering if someone could help me with the autofill for the Address Bar. I usually like it but in the last few months it's been acting strange. The first thing that went wrong was it refused to save www.ebay.com in it's memory so when I type www.eb it won't auto fill. This is annoying since I use ebay often and I hate having to type it in every time. Recently I went to an international ebay page so it started filling that in making it really annoying. So I wanted to wipe out all of the auto fill addresses. So I cleared the history but it still kept filling certain pages in. The funny thing is only certain ones remained in the cache so now less used pages come up before ones I use often because those were erased. So I decided to reset the cache. That didn't work either. It still auto filled the addresses. Finally, I tried reseting Safari and it still auto fill the addresses. The problem is, it didn't remember the addresses that I use often but still uses pages I visited maybe once. It's really annoying. Is there a way to completely erase the auto fill for the address bar and start over? I'm really getting annoyed.
Thanks,
Lisa

this is a common lament, but even if you did erase the url autocomplete the problem would eventually return.
i'd suggest getting either SafariStand (free) or Saft ($). both have "keyword" functionality, which allows you to type in 'e' in the address bar (or whatever you want) to go directly to http://www.ebay.com
also, if you don't want to reach all the way over to the delete button to kill autocomplete, you can just hit control-d.
ibook g4 OSX.4.x

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