I've just posted a small patch to the node.module that would preserve the node options properties ('status', 'promote', 'sticky', 'revision') when a non-admin user edits their post (current behaviour is that these properties revert to their system defaults). This change was requested by a client and I think it's worth considering for drupal's core. Details at http://drupal.org/node/81314 -- Alan Dixon, Web Developer http://alan.g.dixon.googlepages.com/