Questions about updating linked .ai files

I have two questions regarding linked images.
(1) Sometimes when I make changes to an .ai file, the InDesign document will automatically update the image as soon as I save the changes in Illustrator. In other words, I do not need to update the link in the ID links panel. Other times, however, the link will not update, and I have to click the yellow triangle next to the image in the links panel to see the changes. Is there a reason why this happens, and is there an easier way to update images than the links panel. In Quark, I could just double-click on the image and a dialog box would ask if I wanted to update the image. This isn't a big deal to me, but I thought I'd ask.
(2) Whenever I make a change to an .ai file, the linked image in InDesign always re-scales, and I can't figure out why it does so or how to make it stop doing this. For example, I placed a bar chart made in Illustrator in a frame and adjusted its +x and +y values. It came in at 100% scale and I did not change that. Then, I had to make a change to a text label on the chart, which made the graph slightly smaller. When I updated the link in InDesign, it was re-scaled to 118.12%. I had to go into the +x field in the control bar and type in 100% to get it back to the scale it was before. Is there a default setting I need to uncheck to turn this feature off? If not, is there by chance a simple keystroke that will let me re-scale the image quickly?
Thanks in advance for your help!

1. It sounds like you sometimes select the art or thename of the link and choose "edit original" and sometimes you just open the art and make changes. If you tell ID to edit original it updates at the save.
2. There are two options, depending on version, for the relink behavior and scaling. In CS5 (and CS4 if I remember correctly), you have a choice between them inthe prefs, in earlier versions it's one or the other, depending onthe version. One option is to preserve the dimensions, which is wha'ts happening to you. The other is to preserve the scale. Exactly how preserving dimensions behaves depends, too on the cropping options you used when placing the .ai file. If you cropped to aret or bounding box, for example, changing the size of the art or removing a stray point affects the art or bounding box, but cropping to media would not change.

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