Conditional build tags get out of sync with source control

Hi all,
I work on a team with two other people and we use RH 7 and
Microsoft Visual Source Safe. We've been having a problem with our
conditional build tags where one person will add, rename, or delete
a tag, and although the author checks the tags back in right away,
the system isn't "getting" the updated tag file when the other
authors go into the help project. The only way we've been able to
fix this is to have everyone delete their CPD files every time tags
are added, renamed, or deleted, but this seems wacky, and I don't
see any other messages about this problem in the forum. Are we
doing something wrong? We've been having problems (errors) related
to XPJ files being checked out by the first person to enter the
project (posted in another message). Might this be the cause of our
tag problem, too?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Lisa

Hi, I understand about the mismatch…the problem is there shouldn’t be any mismatches, because the source documents didn’t change at all, and no updates were made to the html help topics in RoboHelp. The mismatches appear for no reason that I am aware of. They are very random and I can “fix” the mismatches by performing an “update” for a few linked topics, but then a few more mismatches randomly appear.
I don’t use a Master Page…can you think of anything else I should look into?
Thanks for your help.

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