Personal Domain URL & Publishing via iWeb

I don't have any problems with setting up a personal domain. (In fact, it was quite easy!) My question and issue is this: when I publish to my personal domain, iWeb wants to put the site I created into a subfolder of the root domain. For exmaple:
I want: www.ourlifetogether.com/
Instead, I get: www.ourlifetogether.com/ourlifetogether.com/home.html
I figured out it gets the subfolder "/ourlifetogether.com/..." name from the site name in iWeb. I have since changed it to "site" so that the URL, after someone types www.ourlifetogether.com is forwarded to www.ourlifetogether.com/site/home.html
Is there a way I can have it simply remove the redirect? I would rather be displayed as "www.ourlifetogether.com" and leave it at that. (I would even accept ".../home.html".) Any ideas?
Could it be because my initial page is named "home" rather than "index"? I dunno...
-Shawn
Message was edited by: swhite44

I am not sure what you mean by your "telltail sign". You are correct, iWeb is different and, being new to iWeb, I am attemping to learn these differences and hence why I posted this question initially. I was able to determine; however, that either iWeb and/or the "Publish to MobileMe" function does, indeed, create a index.html file, in the root directory with a META REFRESH in the <HEAD> section of the HTML. Using the open source WGET tool, I was able to grab this file. The contents of that file is below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>
</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url= site/home.html" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Note the <meta http-equiv="refresh" ... url= site/home.html" /> line. This is the "META REFRESH tag I was assumed was happening and apparently...it is. Given that this is something that iWeb and/or MobileMe does without the user knowing about it, I assume that there is nothing that can be done to prevent it.
I am in the process of using WebDAV to move my files from the /site/ subfolder to the / root directory and remove this index.html file. (Actually, I will also likely want to rename my home.html file to index.html.) This is just an academic thing for me at this point because this is not a viable long-term solution. I simply want to publish and forget...and not have to have unpleasant looking URLs.

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Ethmoid wrote:
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