...should such a document ever be written. :)

"Beware switching a field from single to multiple values, or vice-versa. Any theme/module/page-level code you have that queries the old configuration of the tables _will_ break your site horribly."

This has bit me a couple times, and other people I've talked to, so figure I'd document it here.

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And this also goes for sharing fields among content types.... CCK's smart enough to realize that normalization has to happen.

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@webchick: any chance I can talk you into making a handbook page?