Author access control on Pocket PC

I am designing a Mobile Notes application for the Pocket PC. Users have Author access because the application is extended to the internet, where they can not have Editor access in order to enforce security specification.

However, it seems that the Pocket PC does not recognise author fields. As a result, when the user deletes a document from their Pocket PC and syncs, it displays a ‘user not authorised’ message on the sync log. It removes the document from their Pocket PC but not from the Notes database and somehow it just never syncs back to the Pocket PC.

The ‘user not authorised’ message does not limit itself to deletions - sometimes it just appears anyway, even if the user only updated the document.

The message disappears when I add the user as an editor, but as the mobile part is just a small bit of a much larger application, I really need to avoid that and add them as authors only.

The only error trace I can pick up from the domino log (picked up during syncing) is this one:

**** Failed assers: Unsupported design item [AboutPage]. [XMLDesignDecomposer.

cpp 200]

However, the above message is not necessarily linked to the problem I’m having.

Any help appreciated!

thanks

Adi