[OSM-newbies] AussiePaul (newbie) mapping problems

[Paul]

Hi, I'm new here and have been trying to learn. 
I thought I was at a stage where I could make some basic edits and so on. 
I made some tentative attempts and then thought I would wait and see if I was doing stuff correctly. 

Well some have worked out just fine but others seem to have varying degrees of success.
I was told that the maps are slow to update due to the work that is being concentrated on the Haitian crisis and if that is the case I have nothing to worry about .... but I'm wondering if the reason that my entries are not showing is because of something I have done wrong... or not done at all.
Could someone possibly have a look at the following edits and confirm that the problems are not due to me. Please?
I'm not game to do more in case I am just making work that someone else will have to fix up.

I am very familiar with Moreton Bay and this island to the east of Dunwich on North Stradbroke Island is called Peel Island. 
It has a lot of history to do with the early days of Brisbane. It is marked on the Map as North Stradbroke Island.
 I have attempted to change it (twice ... the fist time I used a capital for the "Name" tag... instead of "name")
I corrected that after some reading but it is still showing as North Stradbroke Island. 
#3948891 February 23, 2010 00:11 Corrected name of Peel Island (was marked as North Stradbroke Island.) 152.789,-27.675,152.790,-27.669

I live in the small township of Ripley. It is a part of Ipswich, QLD.

The streets in my area were marked on the map but not named. I named them. Successfully!!!
#3949354 February 23, 2010 03:15 Fixed street surface, clasification ,name 152.789,-27.671,152.795,-27.645

A street near my place was partially marked on the map but it has changed since that data was created. There is a section that was not there that is now and a section that was dirt is now bitumen.
#3949354 February 23, 2010 03:15 Fixed street surface, clasification ,name 152.789,-27.671,152.795,-27.645
 I corrected that. It shows up if I am zoomed out about 5 levels from the maximum zoom but when I go closer my corrections do not show. When I go in to the map editing programs (JOSM and Potlatch) my corrections are there.

There is a suburb near where my Brother in law lives and the streets are not named on the map although some of the streets are there,  not all of them are.
I plan to use my GPS to trace the unmapped streets and name all of them but I thought I would get some practice first by naming some of the ones I am familiar with. Because I go there a lot I know them quite well.
#3958276 February 23, 2010 21:01 Fixed 152.788,-27.677,152.795,-27.645  
#3949743 February 23, 2010 07:53 Fixed stuff 152.770,-27.654,152.771,-27.652 
#3949742 February 23, 2010 07:53 Fixed stuff 152.770,-27.656,152.774,-27.653

Again, when I view this area in the edit map, my tags are there. They seem to be valid to me but they are not showing in the view map. I have been waiting, thinking that perhaps it is just the system is slow to update, but it has been a week now and I'm wondering if the fault is me and not the system.
I would appreciate someone more experienced having a look for me and confirming that it is not my fault, or if it is, then letting me know so I can fix it and avoid someone else having to clean up after me.
Thanks 
Regards,
Paul.
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