Safari 3 auto-fill different behavior?

It seems that in earlier versions when I went to a password login page that was stored in auto-fill, the number would automatically fill in when loading the page. Now it seems that I need to at least enter the first character into the login field and then a little drop-down appears allowing me to choose it, even if there is only one choice. Then the password automatically gets filled in. This is annoying to me as I don't always remember the login I've used. Can someone confirm that this change has happened or am I doing something wrong?

For whatever reason it appears the password field you are interested in is being treated as a choice field instead of a password field. Although the behavior for password fields has not changed (I think) the behavior for choice fields HAS changed.
It used to be that your last choice used was pre-filled into the choice field when you went to the page, and before you typed ANYTHING into that field. Also if you started typing, choices that matched what you had typed so far used to show up in most recently used order with the field autofilled to the one most recently used that matched what you have typed so far.
The behavior now, apparently, is that the choice field is NOT pre-filled (if you have typed more than one choice into that field before, and if you start typing the list shows items matching what you have typed so far in sorted order instead of most recently used order -- which makes it less likely that the one on the top of the list is the one you want.
You can edit the Autofill records in Safari for any given web page to make it forget about previous choices, and then the next time you type in the value for a field on that page it will be recorded as your only choice (so far). But that's kind of crufty.
--Bob

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