Can FM integrate with SharePoint?

Question

We use Visual SourceSafe or Team Foundation Server for 99% of our source FM docs. But we wanted to keep a few FM templates on our SharePoint site so our writers in various cities could easily access them. We each have full permissions so I don't think that's the issue.
Here's the problem scenario, infinitely reproducible:
Check out .fm template file, which resides in a Topic section of the SP page called "Templates".
Click filename link to open template file in FM.
Edit file, save it, close it, check it back in.
File automatically MOVES from "Templates" Topic to "General" Topic, accompanied by a new .backup file, which is still in checked-out status.
Check out .fm file again and edit properties to change Topic from default "General" to "Templates", after which it moves back to the correct Topic.
As .backup file is still checked out, delete it from "General" Topic.
This behaviour seems to occur only with .fm files. A few of our offices still use Word and their files seem to behave correctly. The SP administrator said maybe it's a simple matter that FM and SP "don't play well together" but I find it hard to believe MS would permit this kind of weakness, considering the huge FM audience out there.
Has anyone experienced the above scenario or learned any workarounds?
Thanks in advance,
Gay Alson

Answer 1

No, I'm not answering my own question. Just wanted to clarify a couple of things:
We don't upload any backup files -- this is something SharePoint has decided to do all by itself. Although we can just delete those backup files, the larger problem is SP arbitrarily moving the .fm file from the Templates topic to the General topic, which strips away its properties and necessitates reapplying them. I suspect this happens because of the backup files -- we never upload those, hence they don't have any properties (one of which is the Topic where they are supposed to reside), so SharePoint puts them under the General topic (the SharePoint default) and the "real" .fm file seems to go along for the ride, losing its own properties during the trip.
A related problem is that sometimes in this tiresome checking in/checking out/moving files, SharePoint eats a template file. It simply disappears from the list and is no longer on the SharePoint server. This is the most disturbing problem of all but I can't describe the steps because I haven't yet discovered the pattern that will result in a file simply disappearing.
Yet another SharePoint weirdness is Ctrl+S doesn't perform the Save function in a .fm file being edited "live" -- that is, checked out and opened from the SP page and then edited on the SP server. I've found I must specifically click the Save button in FM.
Is it Friday yet?
...Gay