Aperture 3 and web journal

I'm trying to post a web journal to my mac account with little success. I'm using the Export Web pages button with the destination being Idisc.sites.journalname. The exporting ball spins at the bottom of the page .... for hours but never completes. I cane find the web journal at http://homepage.mac.com/username/journalname but find that the journal pages and text have been completed but only about 5 or 6 photographs.
Any help most appreciated.
Mikey.

Hi Kit, thanks for the reply. I don't think it's a fault with Aperture 3. I remember receiving an email some time ago from apple saying that .mac would not allow new web journals to be posted after a certain dat. Any journals posted earlier would still be viewable on the web but could not be updated. It was around the time of the Mobileme launch and I hoped (after half-reading the email) that it would just be a case of using homepage.me etc. instead of homepage.mac etc.
If you look at the Aperture tutorials for posting to the web they only talk of Flickr and Facebook or Web Pages.
From what I can see, Aperture still lets you build a web gallery but you will have to post it via a third part service provider - which is a pity and and an extra expense. Aperture Web Journals are not perfect but they do allow text pages, which I really like. Aperture Web galleries are not as useful if you want to post photographs from various sources i.e. build a showcase of different types of work.
Thanks again for the reply.
Mikey.

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To the CEO of Apple.
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