>>>Once I click on the publish button the page never refreshes. <<<
I’ve had the same problem. I end up editing what I just edited and after saving, it writes over what I did the last time, I have a mess since I didn’t really “make” any of those first saved changes.
After hitting Save and Continue Editing, hit REFRESH and it will load in the last saved info to the database, which you just saved.
I’ve found this problem more with Firefox than with MSIE. Just hit Cntrl+Shift+R and your “saved” page will reappear. FF just reloads the cached original page, not the new one, so a forced cache clearing usually does the job.
It’s a problem with FF not with WordPress, though maybe there is something in the code that is magical to me that might force the total refresh…