Autofill in safari stopped working

Recently my autofill of datafields from my personal profile and address book--- my name & address, email recipients' names--- just stopped functioning. I checked and it's ON, but it just no longer works. Hoping someone out there has a solution, before I have to call Apple.
John in Houston
OS X 10.4.6
2 gb RAM
1.6 ghz core duo

Steve you've helped yet another. I'll second the 'thanks' for posting your finding of that auto fill button. It used to be a joy filling in web forms on the Mac until they apparently disabled that feature. Type the first letter of my name and viola, the whole page was done. Now at least I can do it with the push of this button you found.
Thanks again,
Robert

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