Contribute - Updating Template Gotchas

When working on a site where the users use Contribute to edit, checking out the template doesn't always check out each new page the user created in Contribute. If the page is not on my computer, DW ignores it.

In Dreamweaver, We opened the template and checked out all the files. then we opened the side-by-side view of remote and locals and all the pages that did not get checked out (ones created by the end-user), we selected and checked out.

Since this client does extensive updates via Contribute, we also want to be sure our pages match and are current with theirs, even if DW shows that it is checked out. To do this I open 2 browser windows that show both my local 'checked out' files on my dev. server and the production site. If a page doesn't match, I re-download it and re-apply the updated template.