Can't open old iWeb domain file (yes, I have asked in the other forum!)

I had to wipe my MacBook hard drive and reinstall my data and OSX. Having tried to restore my iWeb domain file from Time Machine, I find I am unable to open it. (I've asked this question in the iWeb forum but was eventually directed here.) I've tried seemingly everything, including changing the file's permissions, wiping iWeb preferences, creating a new domain, deleting it and replacing it with the old one. Still I'm told iWeb can't open the file.
Could it be corrupted? It's probably relevant that it was created under a different account (I had to create a new one when I wiped the disk) and I believe iWeb doesn't like opening domains created by "another" user.
Any help much appreciated. It's important because I am applying for a new job and my online folio -- aka my iWeb website -- is not up-to-date, which looks very strange.

I have to confess, I was hoping someone with more knowledge about iWeb's Domain file would chime in. Evidently not, though.
Let's try something else. Run the following two commands in the Terminal (paste them in, only one at a time, and hit return after each one):
ls -al ~/Library/Application\ Support/iWeb
ls -al ~/Library/Application\ Support/iWeb/Domain.sites2
Then paste the output here. Here's what I get:
Hyperion:~ thomas$ ls -al ~/Library/Application\ Support/iWeb
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   4 thomas staff   136 Aug 13 2008 .
drwx------+ 75 thomas staff 2550 May 22 20:08 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 thomas staff 6148 Jul 20 07:03 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x@ 15 thomas staff   510 Mar 1 15:02 Domain.sites2
Hyperion:~ thomas$ ls -al ~/Library/Application\ Support/iWeb/Domain.sites2
total 2528
drwxr-xr-x@ 15 thomas staff     510 Mar 1 15:02 .
drwxr-xr-x   4 thomas staff     136 Aug 13 2008 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 root    admin   97259 Jun 20 2008 200250987-001_a.jpg
-rw-rw-r--   1 root    admin 156244 Jun 20 2008 71197600_a.jpg
drwxr-xr-x   8 thomas staff     272 Oct 25 2010 Albums
drwxr-xr-x   3 thomas staff     102 Jul 10 2008 Contents
-rw-r--r--   1 thomas staff     395 Mar 1 15:02 DomainState.archive
drwxr-xr-x   3 thomas staff     102 Aug 13 2008 QuickLook
-rw-r--r--@ 1 thomas staff    4548 Jul 11 2008 back.png
drwxr-xr-x   3 thomas staff     102 Aug 13 2008 domain-F984C302-FDAB-4F41-B32E-8D9FDAFBF9D7
-rw-rw-r--   1 root    admin   57343 Jun 20 2008 dv423037_a.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 thomas staff    1889 Oct 25 2010 index.xml.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 thomas staff   59546 Oct 25 2010 localAssets.plist
-rw-r--r--   1 thomas staff     182 Oct 25 2010 permalinks.plist
-rw-r--r--@ 1 thomas staff 893344 Apr 18 2010 sharedassets.plist
Hyperion:~ thomas$

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