because i seem to be holding all the wrong cards.  Is anyone willing to
publidh this site for me if i can repair the FPSE?

would be greatly appreciated and if you live within reasonable distance from
NYC i will buy you a beer.

Thanks for posting back. I regret that you did not get a more satisfactory
response from MSFT. I am also sorry that I haven't been able to offer more
help, but not having Vista installed I can't workout the procedures for you.
Using forms in a Publisher web publication has been one of the most common
frustrations among users since I first started lurking around here, and now
with the problems added by Vista, I wish there was an easy answer.

I still think that if you follow the procedure for using FTP uploading as
per the article: Prepare, publish, and maintain your Publisher Web site, but
use the HTTP address instead, that you will be able to figure it out. I
don't think you will be able to publish directly from Publisher, but once
you have the HTTP connection mapped out to your server, you will be able to
Publish to the Web, direct your output to your hard drive, and then use
Windows Explorer to drag and drop the index.htm file and the index_files
folder into the "web host server drive". But don't forget that since you did
use FTP uploading, you will probably have to uninstall and reinstall the
FPSE before you will get any HTTP uploading protocol to work.

I did go to Aplus support section and spent a while looking at and reading
the knowledge base under support. There is a lot of information about how to
upload using FrontPage that you might reference. There was also information
about using "formail" that is provided by Aplus. With some work you should
be able to either integrate formail with the Publisher form objects and thus
bypass the need for HTTP uploading and just use FTP, or just insert html
code that works with formail via the insert html code fragment tool in
Publisher, and by pass the Publisher form tool altogether. Formail is a very
common forms program, and if the instructions on how to use it at Aplus
aren't enough, you should be able to Google for better instructions.

Personally, I think if I were in your shoes, I would concentrate on learning
how to integrate Formail into your page. FPSE are notoriously fickle, and
using a third part FTP program such as the freebie FileZilla is faster and
easier anyway.

And in the short term, perhaps you might just use a javascript based form
that you insert as a code fragment. Here is one that will give you the
basics, and that you could modify to add the additional fields you want.
Just copy and paste the following snippet into a code fragment box and
change the email address:

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<FORM action="mailto:name@yourdomain.com" method="post"
enctype="text/plain">
<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="4" WIDTH="90%">
<TR>
<TD width="30%"><DIV align="right">
<B>Name:</B>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD width="70%">
<INPUT type="text" name="name" size="20">
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><DIV align="right"><B>Email:</B></DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
<INPUT type="text" name="email" size="20">
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><DIV align="right">
<B>Comment:</B>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD><TEXTAREA name="comment" cols="30" wrap="virtual" rows="4">
</TEXTAREA>
</TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD>&nbsp;</TD>
<TD>
<INPUT type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
<INPUT type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset">
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</FORM>

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There are other javascript based form scripts out there, and you might
google for those.

Once again, I am sorry I can't be of more help. It is a frustrating
situation.

DavidF