IWeb -- domains corrupted, iWeb crashes..

hi, i have a few questions.
i'm enrolled in a class that requires iWeb. the students are organized into different groups that work on specific sections of a website. each student works individually, then combines his section with the group's chunk of the site. finally, we are all to combine our chunks together to form one, uniform site.
i completed most of my work; i created the class's homepage, and made some other contributions. a few days ago, we were to show our progress via the "index" site published to a folder. that went well.
working together, we obviously had to e-mail our primary "domain" files to each other, so we could edit and combine pages. i did that yesterday with no problems.
today, i was to show my progress before unveiling the thing. as i entered iWeb, the program asked me to "choose a domain," "make a new domain," etc., which i've never seen before. i clicked, "choose a domain" to load up the domain i was working on.. once i clicked "choose," however, iWeb simply closed. in fact, all of the options do this.
the domains, which ALL worked perfectly last night, were suddenly not working.. it wasn't merely my iWeb, however, as the domains, after being sent to others, did not show up as the files i worked on last night. it seems that every domain that has entered my computer is showing up as blank or with missing pages on others' computers. to my knowledge, everyone else's iWeb is doing just fine.
some tech fellows at school re-installed iWeb after getting rid of the updates.. that got it to open new, blank pages to work on, but the old domains were lost. i decided to re-update, thinking, perhaps, the new updates might solve it. they did not; the same thing happened again.
so, i re-installed iWeb once again.. now, it at least opens to a perfect blank, but when i choose "new site" or "new page," everything is greyed out, meaning, i can enter the program, but make nothing on it.
my project is due on tuesday; i need to have everything ready by tomorrow night, and for this to simply stop working and delete my data in the last few days, is a bit much. i have some back-ups, but not of everything.
has anyone ever had this problem ? if so, how could i solve it ?

You may want to double check to see if everyone is using the same version of iWeb...

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