Sync Problem

a colleague of mine edited and uploaded content to our server. i knew this so
clicked synchronize, expecting for my dreamweaver to see the server contents
were newer, and get that content. here's a sample of my sync results...

PUT emea:templates:template1.html
PUT emea:templates:template2.html
PUT emea:templates:template3.html
GET emea/templates/template1.html
GET emea/templates/template2.html
GET emea/templates/template3.html

so it's trying to put and get the same files and if it goes in order, it would
erase the updated content on the server!

so obviously i'm on a mac (hence the colon separator). in the Manage Site
window, i tried changing the : to / in the local directory settings... no go...
says it's not a valid directory. so then i tried the reverse, changing the /
to : in the remote directory settings... which the results of that sync just
made it so all the GET choices were gone. it wanted to PUT the outdated
content on the server.

any ideas on how to resolve this issue? is this a known bug?