[ic] Repeat Unanswered: Shopping Cart Component modification questions

[Anthony W. Juckel]

I posted a message on the mailing list a few weeks back asking about a 
problem I was having while trying to modify the shopping cart component. 
 I received no reply and have since seen at least one other person ask a 
very similar question, again, receiving no reply.  I just thought I 
would ask the question again, and share the information I have 
discovered since my initial post.

First of all, the situation boils down to this:  I am unable to change 
the component parameters for the shopping cart component delivered with 
foundation.  I can change parameters for other components, and I can 
change the body of the cart component, but I cannot modify the 
parameters [comment].*[/comment].  I've saved and resaved the changes to 
the file templates/component/cart, I've restarted the interchange 
server.  Heck, I've even since traced through and put debugging messages 
in interchange/lib/Vend/Util.pm and 
interchange/lib/UI/usertag/read_ui_template.tag to make sure that the 
code was reading the correct file.  I can see the changes that I saved 
in the debugging messages, but I cannot see the effect of those changes 
on the Page Edit page within the interchange backend.

My only guess is that there is some sort of caching or default behavior 
that I have to override, but I am completely unsure how.  I've checked 
all the interchange documentation that I can find, and have spent hours 
looking over the code trying to trace the data from request to display, 
but I can find nothing amiss.  I can find no reason for my changes not 
to be displayed.  If anyone could give me some pointers on this, I would 
be most appreciative.  Has anyone else run into this same problem?  Have 
others modified their cart component without incident?  Anything 
information could be helpful.

Anthony W. Juckel
Using Interchange 4.8.2 on Redhat 7.0 with perl 5.6.0 and the latest 
modules downloaded from CPAN.