Ever since I've started publishing my site using HTML, rather than FTP (but still in FP2003), I've had problems with the Status of files. I can do a full publish of everything, and some files will still show Unmatched on both local and remote server. On /some/ files (but not all), even if I Copy the file by selecting it and using the arrow, it will show Unchanged on both locations; but as soon as I Refresh (F5), or browse away and back to the directory, they're both Mismatched again.

Basically, this is making the Status, a rather important thing, completely worthless. I emailed Microsoft, and surpisingly got a response, first by email, and then by phone. We spend numerous hours on the phone. And basically, if I publish to a Windows server they have set up, all is well. But if I publish to my Unix server at LunarPages, I have the problem.

Lunarpages support say they have heard of no such problem. Any ideas on how to cure the problem? I think I've tried most everything. Even published my whole site temporarily to a new subweb on my site, with the same (wrong) results. I just can't seem to make that Status come up right. What makes it even more weird is that it seems to affect only certain files. I can rename, move, and then put them back, but the problem still exists.

Does anyone else have this problem or similar?