eBay is horrible for doing that. It did it to me this evening. It has to do with the cgi pages and forms, I think. If it hits something it doesn't like, it reloads the same page, brings up a message telling you what you need to correct, but once you make the correction it is a crap shoot as to whether your data will stay on the page when you click "continue."

I was using IE and turned it off and went to Firefox to re-fill the form. Firefox is at times a more stable program, so you might want to try a different browser if the one you crashed and burned in does it very often.

I work up my basic information in Notepad or Word, lay out my auction information in FrontPage, and copy the html information to eBay from there. Redundancy is key. I don't type it into eBay and have to re-compose and re-type if it crashes, I just have to re-enter my specifications situating the auction.

SRS