Oh, right! I just thought I was going mad, and it entirely stopped my creation of customizable products for a week. I went back to easy "stock" items that people might want to buy. (I always start a store with a bunch of cheaper, non-customizables like that.)
I noticed this too, and just thought it was a direction Zazzle had gone in for designing products. That you have to publish first via the sell button before you can test the Personalization button area works okay.
I've got a sticker stuck in my Saveds at the moment, after spending a bunch of time messing about with Text and URL parameter fields in the template object part of the designer; I thought I had done something wrong, by copying a sticker that worked and just switching out the image.
But with a biz card that took me 3 hours to get lined up and looking okay, I figured I wasn't going to just let it fester in the invisible, unpublished Saved designs. So I pubbed it anyway, thinking I'd just delete it and try again if the Personalization fields didn't work nicely.
Glad it sounds like a bug - and THANKS(!!) for reporting it to Zazzle. I hadn't even thought about that. Lol. Thought it was *me* doing something wrong. Then thought it was just a change Zazzle was implementing. Ho hum. Totally random that I happened to be working on stickers and biz cards, so when it happened on both, I assumed it was happening on ALL products. Just unlucky timing I guess. Ha ha.
