base meta tag not working

We have a trial version of Dreamweaver CS3. Up to this point, we've been using
MS FrontPage.

We have a standard meta tag in our header that looks like this:
<BASE HREF="http://myURL/">

This code allows the page to complete relational links so that, for instance,
our styles from our stylesheet are brought into the page while we're editing
it. However, while this code works fine in FrontPage, it isn't working in
Dreamweaver. We have to use absolute paths to link to all images, media, linked
pages, etc., for Dreamweaver to render them.

I should add that when we edit pages, they are on a server that isn't a web
server (no IIS). But this lack doesn't bother FrontPage.

Anyone know what's going on here? I suspect it's an easy fix, but if it isn't,
then we probably won't be buying Dreamweaver.

I have never used or heard of the base meta tag and I have never had any
problems using relational links in Dreamweaver. Not sure what could be causing
your problems. Can you post a sample of code or a link?

J