In your example you don't mention the text_field anywhere. I just tried this with Watir 1.5.1 lateset development gem and it worked fine:
$ie.div(:id, 'text_fields1').text_field(:name, 'div_text1').set("show me the money")
Send an html snippet and your script line if this doesn't work.
-Charley
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