Apple Help and remote help content?

FROM : Phil
DATE : Tue Jan 08 00:00:00 2008

I've gotten the basic help system working locally (i.e. I can open my 
applications help, browse the various pages I've created, etc... all 
the expected functionality is there) but can't seem to figure out what 
I've done wrong when I attempt to go with a network-based help 
system.  I believe I've followed the correct sequence of steps:

1) Open Help Indexer->Preferences
2) Enable 'Use remote root for missing files and updates'
3) Enable 'Prefer network files to local files'
4) Enter the URL to the top level help directory on the server
5) Reindex my content
6) Rebuild the app
7) FTP the 'updated' content up to the server (right now it's just the 
same files with some text indicating 'this is from the server' in my 
top-level help page)

The problem I'm having is that the help system isn't checking with the 
server (it did the first time I tried it but I had some settings 
problems which have since been corrected) so the local content is 
always being used... are there any debugging/logging techniques to 
finding out what the help system thinks is going on and/or wrong?  One 
thing I'm thinking since it attempted to check the first time: are 
there any default caching/timeout settings that would cause this 
behavior that I could change and/or disable while testing this out? 
(I haven't set anything in my pages so they are fairly vanilla HTML 
right now)

Thanks,
Phil