Contribute is re-writing the paths to my files!

[eskymo]

I'm training a client to update their site using Contribute and keep getting
error messages caused by the software re-writing the path to certain files in
the code.

Bascially I have all my navigation in an include file which is pulled into
every page of the site using:
<?php require('includes/navigation.php'); ?>

When we are using Contribute and edit the page content - when we click on
Publish to make our changes live we get the following error:

Warning: require(../includes/navigation.php) [function.require]: failed to
open stream: No such file or directory in
/home/bar10000/public_html/barone_music.php on line 33

Warning: require(../includes/navigation.php) [function.require]: failed to
open stream: No such file or directory in
/home/bar10000/public_html/barone_music.php on line 33

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required
'../includes/navigation.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php')
in /home/bar10000/public_html/barone_music.php on line 33

when I look at the source code the links now have "../" in front of them.

WHY IS IT DOING THIS???

I am using Studio 8 and the site has been built in Dreamweaver - I created
dreamweaver templates from the pages I created so that I could lock down areas
of the site and have editable regions that the client could using to update the
content. Any help is appreciated.

[ThinkInk]

I had the several problems with include menu's and hyperlinks, specially when I
made them 'updatable' by users through Contribute (3, 4 and CS3). I never found
settings concerning the way Contribute handles hyperlinks. If you want to use
this practical include solution that users can update through Contribute, you
probably best place the include file in the same folder as the page(s) it gets
included into. I always use the php function include instead of require.