We are a subversion shop, however the subversion integration is not really available cleanly so we are using Source Safe.  Is there a way for multiple check out and merge of a topic?  I hae SS setup to allow for multiple check out, but Help Studio does not seem to respect this.

HelpStudio does not support check out and merge for Source Control. Doing so would require that the user manually decide what parts of the HelpStudio data files can be merged in a valid and consistent way which isn't really feasible. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.