[Zope] Problem Creating Instances Mysteriously Solved

[Dan Shafer]

While we have no idea why this is the case, my incredible Zope hosting 
dude, David Elkins (hurrah.com) and I managed to get my code working so 
that I can now create instances of my own ZClasses reliably. We only did 
two things.

We took the code that should have worked and didn't, copied it, and pasted 
it into a new DTML Method object with a different name (we called it 'test' 
instead of 'startClearing').

We restarted the back end of the Zope server.

Now it works. It even works in its original form and name.

No clue why. Frankly, only mildly interested in the reason. It works.

I must, however, say that this has shaken my confidence in Zope a bit even 
though I am acutely aware that there could be dozens of non-Zope reasons 
for this to happen. This was just too weird and it cost me 21 unbillable hours.

Weird.