InDesign has a huge packaging bug!

I love InDesign BUT...
How could InDesign CS4 get out the door with such a huge bug? The packaging doesn't add all the linked files to the packaged folder. Luckily, our printer was in town and we were able to save it back to CS3 and package it from there. That's a HUGE problem! I hope the software engineers are able to fix it quickly and provide us with a patch ASAP.

There was an issue on the Macintosh platform where linked files with certain characters (characters allowed in Mac file naming conventions, but not on other platforms like /,\, and *) would cause InDesign to stop collecting links. This was fixed with, I think, the 6.0.2 update.
Best practice, however, in these days of cross-platform computing is to avoid the use of any character in a filename which is unsupported across all operating systems. You never know where your files are going to end up.

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