Aperture 2.0 Web Gallery - Broken?

I am running Aperture 2.0 on a Mac Pro 2.8x8 10GB RAID0 OS 10.5.2 with all updates to graphics drivers etc. as of 02.17.08.
I have a project with 43 photographs, in 6 stacks.
1. I select 3 photographs and click 'Web Gallery' button from Toolbar.
2. The 'Web Gallery' is created in the Project Panel.
3. The 'Web Gallery' project displays every photograph in the stack, instead of the ones I selected.
4. Uploaded on the 'Web Gallery' is only ONE photograph. The first one in the stack.
The End result? When I view the webpage in Safari, ONE photograph appears. The first one in the stack.
I have been using the Web Gallery feature in iPhoto 08 since September, and Aperture 1.5 for over two years. I don't think I'm forgetting to do something as this process includes extremely few variables to complicate. Not only do I wish Apple spent at least a few man hours creating a more dynamic Web 2.0 experience for Aperture instead of not touching the existing technology (which is dated), but I wish the product I paid for would work properly?
Hopefully It's something I'm overlooking, because I'm sure other people are having this same problem.
Graham
Edit: I suppose its worth mentioning that I do not have 'Primary Only' selected. And when I try to delete a photograph from a Web Gallery, unlike iPhoto where it will remove it from the Web Gallery ONLY, Aperture would like to remove the photograph permanently.. Hopefully thousands of people aren't deleting photographs by accident thinking its only removing it form Web Gallery because thats how it functions in other Apple Software?
Message was edited by: Psilocybe
Message was edited by: Psilocybe

As the manual suggests, all 27 photographs in this stack are similar in kind. I would like to publish 3 of these photographs with my stack intact. You're saying this is not possible?
If you want maximum flexibility in creating Web Galleries, DO NOT use stacks? What happens to the thousands of stacks that people have already created in Aperture and would like to simply get photographs online? Sounds like hours of reworking organization.

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