Can't preview in Dreamweaver CS3

I can't preview the web page in Dreamweaver CS3. When I click
the globe symbol that says "Preview/Debug in Preview", it says it
will update the file and allow me to preview it. But then I get an
error message and the browswer will not show the page.
But when I ftp the files to my site, I can see everything OK.
How can I see the preview?

> Click on the Advanced tab at the
> top and double-check the testing server information
and if you are writing static html pages with no server side
code in them,
set testing server access to "none"
Alan
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