Trouble Saving Changes

Here's my problem, maybe someone can shed some light on it:

I recently published my third arc and here and there I've been going through and making changes, correcting spelling, etc. At least I was right after I published it. Then I got sidetracked for a couple of weeks...

Today when I went back to it I saw that a few of my changes hadn't been saved afterall. As I recall, I made them in stages, "change this dialogue and text, save; change that dialogue and text, save", etc. So I can't say for sure, but it looks like only some of the changes didn't save while others did. I know that each time I hit save that I waited until I saw the "arc has been republished" message came up in my chatbox before I went in and started making more changes. I was doing that way to be sure and save my work in small steps so if my power went out or something that I wouldn't lose an hour's work

So what's going on with this, anyone know? It's pretty frustrating to have to go back and alter stuff twice in a row and not see it show up. Plus knowing that people might see my unrefined work and think "this stuff is sloppy." :/

I've seen that issue, or something similar, several times. When I get down to those fine tweaks in a published arc, I do a lot of republishes in a row, and it's usually text changes-- or the lack of them, really-- that tip me off to the fact that my last changes didn't take.

Usually what happens is I see my last changes didn't take, then I go back and look at them to be sure, then re-publish again to be even more sure. After that second republish of the same changes, they usually show up.

What I hadn't figured out yet is if it's really the second republish that finally cements the changes, or just the time elapsed from the first publish. But you say you came back to it after a day or so, so it would seem to be the second publish that fixes it. No idea why the first one doesn't take.

It happens if you're doing multiple changes, and republishing often.

In order to avoid this problem, you have to:
1: Make your changes, hit "republish and exit."
2: Wait for the "blah blah blah has been updated" message. This may take a minute.
3: Hit the "search" button to refresh the "my published stories" window. This step is important; if you don't do it you will be editing the version of the arc from before you republished, and will revert the edits you made.
4: You can now hit "Edit" again, and all the changes you made in the previous edit SHOULD stick. Rinse, repeat.