traps in enabling the publishing feature

all dudes note following. If you fancy making your site a open-to-public Internet site using WSS 3.0/MOSS, you better watch out the check in/check out and publishing traps you might fall into since this is what I got. Basically I forgot to check in the default.aspx and ... most importantly the css file I modified -_-! (I hate these days, really)so when different user logs in, he/she will either miss your default.aspx file therefore get stuck in the void or sees the old style... remember, remember , to check in your files in Sharepoint designer first! To be honest,I think I have disabled the publishing feature for my site collection already!