Can't select text in iWeb published pages

I need to rebuild pages from existing ones on the web that were made with iWeb 09.
Text boxes that also include inserted images appear to have lost the ability to have their text highlighted and copied off the web (existing) pages.
Boxes that contain ONLY text seem to be selectable, just fine, but if ANY image has been inserted in the text stream when the page was designed, attempting to select just the text ends up selecting the entire box, which is not very helpful.
Is there a way around this?

Thanks so much for enlightening me on the VPR (very peculiar results) hidden inside iWeb 09.
Whoda thunk that simply adding a simple drop shadow onto text would mess up the entire selectability of every bit of adjacent text in that text box?
That qualifies for the IBotY (Institutionalized Bug of the Year) award. Surely the code writers should have seen this one coming and worked around it by automatically selecting and isolating the drop-shadowed text?
Now a new conundrum.
After fixing the text by dropping it into in-line text boxes, all is well except (wait for it)
Just One More Thing.
The boxes, now selectable, show up just fine in iWeb, all neatly packed together the way I want the layout to look.
BUT
They float apart. The page is tall, but in Safari, at least, some of the boxes are now floating down-page a few or several dozen pixels. See if it does it on your computer here: http://www.hdslrreview.com/HDSLRreview/Cameras.html
What the?

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