by Jim » Fri May 16, 2008 9:26 am
The customer registration pages are not associated with the store product pages so variable set on those templates will have not affect on pages when the store is generated.
Vars set in Page or Product templates will be active during the publish of pages with products on them and only during that particular publish cycle.
Vars set in registration, shopping cart, search, giftcertificate, tell a friend templates will only be active on the screen that that particular template creates. This is because these screens are generated dynamically and are not static html pages like the ones containing products so the vars are removed when the process used to create the screen completes.