Yeah, I was just wondering why your table definitions don't look more like
this:
db.define_table('page',
Field <http://web2py.com/book/default/docstring/Field>('title'),
Field <http://web2py.com/book/default/docstring/Field>('body', 'text'),
Field <http://web2py.com/book/default/docstring/Field>('created_on',
'datetime', default=request
<http://web2py.com/book/default/docstring/request>.now),
Field <http://web2py.com/book/default/docstring/Field>('created_by',
db.auth_user, default=auth.user_id),
format='%(title)s')