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Let's say you have a Contribution page with a Profile, and in the Profile is a field of type "file".  If the validation fails (say because the person forgot to enter a required field) which happens all the time, the CiviContribute page dutifully remembers all the Profile data EXCEPT for the file path.

Try it here on the demo site:
http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1

Is there any way that the form could remember the file browse... path on validation failure?  Is this a simple bug or a complex something that has hampered Contribution pages for a long time?

You're right, <input type="file" ...> has no default value (like other HTML input types do).  It seems that Drupal CCK fields work how you describe, it actually uploads the file when the form is submitted, even if validation fails.  This seems like a big hassle to replicate this behavior with CiviCRM, so I guess we should probably just live with it.  Thanks anyhow.