Aperture and iWeb and Captions

I'd like to notate my photos in Aperture and have the notations appear under each photo in an iWeb Photo template. I've tried using Metadata Captions and I'm still seeing filenames under the iWeb photos. I'm using the Media Inspector to drag and drop the images into iWeb.
Thanks for any help!
-=Tim=-

Sorry, I don't think I correctly read your question. I was trying to explain having your captions show in the Aperture web gallery, but it looks like you want iWeb help.
To show a caption, I have been double-clicking on the album (in iWeb) to edit the selected image. Then I go from page to page and edit the filename to be the caption I want. This doesn't provide but a few letters, so I try to make the captions brief.
Creating web galleries in Aperture isn't as simple as I thought it would be. Each time I've created one, I forget all the steps to doing it. I am hoping Apple adds better iLife support so it doesn't have to be a multi-step process and the metadata already entered can be used for the caption. I'm new at Aperture, so hopefully I haven't totally missed something.
If you find something easier, I'd like to know also because I've been staying away from Aperture Web galleries until this is easier. I put up a few albums on my site just to test, but am anxious to get new photos up when it isn't so tedious.

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