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Thanks JeremyR. That's about what I ended up doing.

Thanks, LD. Now that I know that the change in the site's behavior was deliberate and well-intentioned rather than random and thoughtless, I feel better about the necessity of redoing my work. I wish they had found a less drastic way to prevent unwanted use of the LightBox API.

Hi, I had a nice looking GC.com listing for one of my travel bugs that worked well for many months. Then a few weeks ago GC.com changed its code and now my page renders incorrectly. GC.com still stores the HTML I entered. But the values of the class attributes are not present on the rendered page. The TB listing to which I refer is http://coord.info/TB29HQM. This is just one of three listings of mine that the GC.com code defect impacted. Example: ------------ Here is some HTML I typed into the "Description" text box on the "Edit Your Trackable Item" page <style type="text/css"> p.mytext { color:crimson;font-family:papyrus;font-size:x-large } </style> <div name="chris" style="background-color:LightSeaGreen;"> <table> <tr> <td> <p class="mytext"> Now do a comparison with what gets rendered. If you are looking at this in IE8, do a view source on the page rendered for my TB and look at lines 191-200. This is what you will see. The class declaration gets into the rendered page but GC.com fails to apply it to the <p> tag. <style> p.mytext { color:crimson;font-family:papyrus;font-size:x-large } </style> <div style="background-color:LightSeaGreen;"> <table> <tr> <td> <p> Please fix this problem. I worked hard on those pages and I want them to look right. Thanks

That tag list must be out dated. I'm able to use "div", which does not appear in the list you link.

My dad bought his first GPS yesterday. This will enable him to start geocaching and so that he can have a cheap navigation aid for boating/fishing and road/atv trips. Now he needs to know whether he should purchase pre-loaded SD cards or purchase with DVDs. I've only used Garmin's CDs and DVDs so I can only guess at the advantages and disadvantages of SD cards. So far, the main possible SD card advantages I've thought of for my Dad are 1) he would not need his laptop computer to load his maps during road trips; 2) the sd cards are easy to store in his car's glove compartment. Are the SD cards easy and inexpensive to replace if they get lost or damaged? Can their owners make backup copies? What do SD card users do when map updates become available? I've read in these forums of some methods of combining TOPO maps alongside City Navigator maps. The methods seemed to assume use of CDs/DVDs. Does using pre-loaded Garmin SD cards hinder the pursuit of such possibilities? Thanks

An alternative to carrying a walking stick as a poking device is to carry a retractable lecture pointer. It closely resembles a car's radio antenna. But it has a slightly sturdier construction. So it is good for pushing the poison oak, etc out of the way. When retracted, the pointer I bought from Staples for a little under $5 is no larger than a pen and only slightly more heavy. The pointer is roughly 3-feet long when fully extended. Rectractable pointers aren't just easier to carry. They also are less conspicuous during urban caching. They are easy to transport and muggles find them completely non-threatening. Another great safety device is an LED flashlight. I've been quite happy with a 5-inch metal flashlight I bought at Lowes. It was not cheap. But it helps me all the time. The high power rating is essential because no mere maglite flashlight sufficiently illuminates a dark hole peered into it through the glare of a sunny summer afternoon. Spending the extra money for an LED instead of a conventional flashlight is also a good idea. The batteries of my LED flashlight last forever. A comparable conventional flashlight would have gone through many batteries during the same period. I commonly use my flashlight during the daytime to inspect the holes before I start poking with my pointer or probing with my hands. I've avoided countless black widows and wasp nests in sheds and holes as well as under bridges with this flashlight. I'm sure everyone will agree a they can inspect these dark spots more thoroughly visually than when they blindly probe with a sticks or fingers. Other great reasons to carry always flash lights: 1. Flashlights allow you stay on the trail if you find yourself returning from a cache on a dark night. Many shady forest trails becomes pitch black at night. Bumbling down a set of switch backs at night on an unlit trail without a flash light courts disaster. 2. Flashlights double as bike lights 3. Even small flash lights can be just as persuasive at deterring assaults from potential evil doers as walking sticks--although I rely more on my pleasant disposition (and large frame) than my flashlight in those situations. 4. If the flashlight uses the same type of battery as your GPS, you get an extra level of battery preparedness--except when you need your GPS at the same time you need your flashlight. (Battery redundancy is an argument for also carrying a small digital camera.)

I agree with everyone that it is a nice feature. It would be a better feature if the date displayed when I look at my finds list was the date of the event rather than the date I made a post to the event. Seeing the event date would help me not miss the event. Some might reply that I could set the date of my post to the date of the event. But I see that as a second best solution because the post date is useful too.