Back to iWeb 08 2.03???

As I have problems (comment doesn´t work on my blog) with the iWeb Update 2.04. Is it possible to go back to 2.03 and re-install it?!
Thanks for your help
Martin

To give more explanation of the main problem for me, it is this.
Under the previous version of iweb (iLife 6.0) I cold open any of my photo pages on my idisk (say photo-1.html, located in the Home_Page directory) into a browser and all pictures would display fine and all photo links and slideshow work fine. This is opening directly from my idisk in my .mac account.
Under the latest version of iweb (2.0.1+) if I open a photo page from the idisk with a browser I get the page with no photos and no slideshow. (although the link for slideshow is there).
If I go to my webpage directly with my browser, the photos and slide show work fine, but I cannot run them directly from my idisk like I could before. This is important to me because the photo-1.html and photo-1_files folders previously worked together (even in Dreamweaver) but now they do not.
Of course there are now other directories, like rss.js that calls up the photos, but since that folder and slideshow.html etc are all still located in the current directory for running the browser they should still work but they do not. NO photos or slideshow when run from the idisk. Only works directly from the website. This loss of capability is unacceptable to me because I need the photos to work directly from my idisk.

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Sure, you could syncronize in the opposite direction to get your html files and images, etc back on your Mac. But you will have to drag and drop, copy and paste to get that content back into iWeb.
Your iWeb data is stored, not in your actual html files, but in a file called Domain.sites which is stored in your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder. If you want to work on your site on another computer, copy this file to a thumb drive to move it around.
You should backup this file whenever you make big changes to your site, because if it gets lost or damaged, you will have to start all over. Sadly, many many people learn this the hard way. Unfortunately, looks like you have too.
I have an Automator app on my site that will help you backup your Domain file(s). Click here to download it or visit http://iweb.varkgirl.com for more info. The app will make a .zip file of your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder and save it to a location of your choosing.
Then check out Mozy for an online place to store your backups - I just found this and it seems great. They just recently released a Mac friendly version of their app - it automates the upload and encryption. You select the files you want to backup and it does the rest. You can set it to upload automatically after so many minutes of inactivity or once a day. It does it all in the background so you don't have to worry about it! 2GB of storage are free - plenty of room for most people's iWeb Domain.sites backups!

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To be able to publish changes you will have to do a search for the original domain.sites2 file and drop this into Home Folder/Library/Application Support/iWeb.
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Under the previous version of iweb (iLife 6.0) I cold open any of my photo pages on my idisk (say photo-1.html, located in the Home_Page directory) into a browser and all pictures would display fine and all photo links and slideshow work fine. This is opening directly from my idisk in my .mac account.
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Jeremy,
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If you publish to folders on your hard drive, those sites in those folders are completely seperate from iWeb. You could publish 20 different sites to 20 different folders on your computer and they would all be seperate from each other as well as seperate from iWeb. So you could go in and play around with the html and have no effect on your unpublished work in your "domain" file.
2. confused on how to back up my domain file
Your domain file is just like any other file on your mac. To back it up just duplicate it from the finder file menu and move the duplicate to safe keeping (on a CD, flash drive, external hard drive, etc.) If you accidentally deleted the domain file all you have to do is move your back up copy on to the computer and double click on it to start iWeb. After that initial procedure iWeb will remember that that is the domain file to work from.
ps: back up your domain file frequently and keep it safe.
Good luck,
Sincerely, David Phelps <URL deleted from sig by host>
"I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link."
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