Awesome – thank you Pioneer – that did it – why would that have only affected Firefox?
I’m experiencing the same issue on my self-hosted WordPress blog – very annoying. I seem to be able to get the category to stick if I do a quick edit.
I also find it changing the author to me for other users if I edit the post.
I tried updating to the latest version of WordPress hoping it would help, but no dice.
I’m wondering now if it might be my Thesis theme that’s causing the problem, or perhaps a plug in. If I find anything that fixes it, I’ll post back here.