Contribute CS3 issues

Am a bit new to the Web publishing world, but am familiar
with the pc realm. I just installed Master Collection CS3 and was
playing with Contribute. I applied the CSS patch to Contribute.
Problems are:
1. a. If I connect to a local site, edit a page, publish, and
get another URL from the home pages, gtg
b. If I go to a remote site, do not connect, then go to
homepages url, gtg.
c. If I go to a remote site, connect, regardless of what
else I do, the remote site page will stay in the Contribute browser
page. If I get another URL from homepage, browser stays the same,
unless I hit edit, then selected site comes in. Once I discard or
publish, remote site page reappears. If I have pages in the page
windoe, I can get to those, but browser page reamins remote site.
Remote site page does have a flash video in it
2. When I preview in browser, (Firefox, updated), firefox
windows up, but it is blank, no matter local or remote site.
I am running XP pro SP2 completely updated, defragged and reg
cleaned. Only problem so far with programs except for CSS warning
appearing on Dreamweaver home page after I installed fix.
Any ideas??
Thanks
Joe

Hi Rads,
For problem 2, I was editing a page in Contribute, and wanted
to use the preview in browser function. When I did that, Firefox
came up with an empty page. I have since contacted Adobe on this,
and they recreated the problem. I changed to IE as default browser,
and preview works ok, so it looks like a Firefox issue.
The first problem is when I connect to a site that has a
flash movie, the homepage for that site stays in the contribute
browser window, even if I select a different site. This does not
happen if I do not connect to the flash site. I am doing some more
troubleshooting on this. It is not a CSS issues as I have reverted
to the pre CSS fix file
Joe

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