OD-DD

System

In doing a OD-DD SYNC - I have this working but the following questions arise:

WHY DO THE TABLES WHICH I GENERATE
(IDEALLY I'D LOVE TO JUST KEEP THE SAME SHORTID NAMES BETWEEN DATABASES) HAVE DIFFERENT LONG_ID NAMES - EXAMPLE ON MY STAGING BOX THE LONGID's ARE ALL SIMILIAR TO THE FOLLOWING:

DEFAULT_ABOUT_US_ABOUT_US__ABOUT_US__MAIN_WORKAREA

HOWEVER AFTER I RUN DDSYNC.IPL - THE TABLE NAMES GET GENERATED AS SUCH ON OUR PRODUCTION DATABASE:

ABOUT_US_ABOUT_US__ABOUT_US_KEY

THUS - THE FIRST AND LAST SECTION OF THE NAME GET TRUNCATED - WHY?

IT APPEARS THE DDSYNC.IPL - IS A VERY WATERED DOWN VERSION OF IWSYNC.IPL OR SHOULD I SAY IT APPEARS THAT DDSYNC.IPL IS A ONE-OFF JUST FOR SYNCS?

ALSO - CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHY THE TYPE IN MY IWOV_IDMAPS TABLE IS 4 AFTER I RUN A OD-DD SYNC -
EVERYWHERE ELSE THIS TYPE IS 1?

I must say and Mr. Scallon if your reading this - the od-dd sync documentation is terrible - I will e-mail you when I get a chance all the inconsistent information I've found - your really left to guess a lot of this information yourself - instead of having a clear cut methodlogy - thus far the od-dd documentation is the most vague I've read - I can't believe I've gotten as far as I have - (3 full days to figure this stuff out - and support isn't up on the best practices for the od-dd sync at all!)

Thanks