Serpent wrote:BTW did he confirm that the timeout warning is not really a warning but an indication that your answers are no longer being recorded?
No, just that he had gotten in touch with the support network for the survey program and alerted them to the problems people were reporting, but that he wasn't sure they would be able to do much about it.
I think it's very possible that I also left a question blank the first time I took the survey and that's what caused the error I got. Since the error didn't give any information, and since I'd already gotten that inactivity warning around the fifteen minute mark even though I was busy filling in the survey, I assumed the error was related. But it could have been leaving a question blank, especially if you think that's what happened to you. I feel a bit bad if I caused people to rush through the survey, and I edited my post a couple days back to let people know I'm not sure if it's really a timeout issue after all.