ICloud Keychain won't use stored password -- why?

I have a problem with exactly one website -- www.fltplan.com -- that won't store play nicely with iCloud Keychain (in Safari, on Mavericks). I have a password already defined for this site in iCloud Keychain, but when I go to this site it prompts me for a new one instead of filling in the one it knows.
I used to believe it's because of how the site had named the userid and password fields, but they've renamed the fields to be "username" and "password" and the problem persists. Surely Safari could identify those? Anyway, could anyone with expertise in the area snoop out the site and say definitively what the problem is?
Thanks,
Michael

Thanks for your reply, Eric:
Safari (I'm using 7.0.2) no longer has the setting mentioned in these articles. And my problem is that it is offering to save a (new) password, rather than use the one that is already defined in iCloud Keychain.
And it never seems to recognize when the cursor is in the user name field...
Michael

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