Contribute CS3 Locking up pages

My client just began using Contribute CS3 and each time she
edits a page, then publishes, she can no longer access the page for
further editing until we unlock the page for her.
She'll get an error that 'this page is being edited by her
and not available to edit'. Or the message will say she's editing
the page on another computer.
Has anyone else experienced this problem and if so, how did
you resolve it?
Tom Anderson
Excelleweb, LLC

I have been having the same problem with both Contribute 3.1
and CS3. It only occurs when I have a lot of links on the page. I
am now using spry menus and have a lot of links on every page and
so Contribute is locking up when I try to publish. Then you can't
use it again until you clear out the drafts. Without the spry menus
it was always just one draft page, but now with the spry menu it
grabbed all of my links to other pages and created a draft for each
one. I now have to clear out around 50 drafts. Can anyone help with
this?

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"Dave Addison" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I put a site online last week (www.dunelakeslodge.co.nz)
and supplied my
>client with Contribute CS3 to update it, supplying her a
connection key.
>
> She is connecting OK, but when she tries to edit a page
she gets a message
> saying she "can't edit this page because Dave Addison
(that's me) is
> already editing it. Please contact blah, blah...".
>
> I have connected to the site myself with Contribute 3,
and got a similar
> error: "you can't edit this site because you are already
editing it on
> another computer"!!
>
> It gave me the option to "unlock" the page, which I
selected, and I was
> then able to edit the page. However, my client still
can't.
>
> Anyone got a solution to this?
>
> thanks
> Dave
>

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