Page 2 - Error - You did not enter the CAPTCHA phrase correctly

Cross-post:

1. I'm a newbie and I get asked for a captcha string.

2. I'm using both Firefox and IE6 and both of them wipe out my post data and I can't get it back with the Back button.

3. I understand that the captcha thing is probably necessary, but it's a real b*stard when you've spent half an hour carefully typing in a bunch of stuff to have it vaporised just because you mis-typed the captcha string. The system could at least give you your post data back so you can try again (or, preferably, if you made a mistake you should get the Enter or Reply page back, with the error message, and your text pre-filled in the textarea). How about it, Matt?

To avoid confusion caused by numerous threads on the same subject, I'm locking this one. The discussion can be continued here