Stan -
I too, wish you hadn't lost the writeup you worked on. My 2000 GLS may need this work done on it when warm weather returns next Spring. As someone else said, this thread is collecting some good info.
It is maddening to find yourself "logged out" without any warning, and your writeup lost. I learned to copy everything -- often -- to the clipboard while writing a post, and then save the clipboard contents often, to a text document on my desktop, just in case you need to be able to copy it back quick, after a surprise logout. At least you don't have to recreate it all.