Basically, the latest update to one of the background parts of Drupal broke the mini-editor or rather the mini-editor's integration into the editing box. The mini-editor is the string of little boxes above the editing window that lets you automate inserting structured HTML into your stories, blogs and forum posts.

What goes wrong is that when you split off the teaser/summary into a separate window, the doomaflatchie that loads the mini-editor for each sub-window only loads one copy. Then part of the program thinks there are two windows with two internal caches and the other part thinks there is only one window with one internal cache. A cache is sort of scratchpad memory where things are written before being saved.

The solution until Piper and I can unravel just which exact part of the code is causing the problem is to never edit the a story or blog or forum when there are two editor windows visible. Always click the button that says "Join Summary" to combine the two windows into one. Then do your edits, choose where you want the teaser to end and place the editing cursor there then click "Split summary at cursor" to make two windows again. Hit save and Bob's your aunt now!

Editing comments is okay, they don't have teasers.

We hope we can solve this soon but it is a holiday week and I don't know but I think this is going to take some time and skullsweat to work out.

Hugs,
Erin