Bridge mode, share a public IP address,&  Filemaker instant web publishing

I have finally wrestled my Time Capsule into working order as a router. For some reason, when I try either to use the router in Bridge Mode or Distribute a Range of IP addresses, I couldn't connect to the internet through an ethernet cable to a ComCast cable modem. It works fine with Share a Public IP Address, so I'm happy . . . until I went back to the filemaker instant web publishing.
The instant web publishing seems to need an absolute address (e.g. 67.123.45.23) rather than the relative address (e.g. 10.0.1.4). I tried to go to Whatismyip.com to get my actual IP address, but I can't get to it that way either. Is there any way to keep the relative addresses distributed by the Time Capsule while sharing an IP, but still have a fixed IP to publish the filemaker database to? Any help would be tremendously appreciated.

Well, my posts a year late, but just a suggestion:
From what you said about how "The instant web publishing seems to need an absolute address (e.g. 67.123.45.23) rather than the relative address (e.g. 10.0.1.4)." I think I might remind you that they meant a "static IP", which doesn't change every time you connect. An absolute IP would be virtually impossible unless you requested it from a top-tier company. (And yes, you can subscribe to a service that gives you one, but it's way more than any ordinary person can afford) The other option, which you (and the rest of us) are using is a dynamic IP. It assigns an IP to each of our computer every time we "log on" to the internet
But, if you say that you only need instant web publishing, you can always try some kind of service like dynDNS that can redirect any (of your) domain(s) to your IP every time you connect.
dynDNS is free, but has business accounts....
(iWeb, on the other hand, is entirely different. iWeb is designed to export the website to Apple's server, therefore you do not need to deal with the whole IP thing.)

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