CSS stylesheet link issue in Dreamweaver CS4

Hello,
In order to make sure that mywebsite always delivers the latest .css changes without users having to refresh their browsers, I did the trick:
link href="css/style.css?version=1" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
This works great, but the trick doesn't work so well when previewing a file in Dreamweaver. It doesn't link to the CSS file because of the "?version=1" part.
Do you folks know what I can do to fix this? Will I need ot have two versions of the files, one for working in and one for uploadng?
Thanks,
Mike

I don't want my users to have to hit refresh to see my CSS changes.
They won't.
The chapter on Design Time Stylesheets doesn'rt really help me.
Sure it does.
the issue is that dreamweaver isn't linking to the style sheet because of the "version" part of the link.
Remove the version part. SaveAs DesignTime.css.
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