Classroom in a Book Examples Do Not Work.

Question

I am working through the Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book, while working on a MacPro OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard.
Many examples do not function as advertised. This is one example:
On page 114, the user is asked to insert a Spry menu into the page. When this is done the properties panel should appear, in which the Text, Links, Titles and so on can be entered. On my system the properties panel does not appear as it should. Instead, the properties panel for HTML and CSS remains present. It is not possible to enter the attributes as intended in the lesson. I can enter them manually into the markup, but since this will not result in correctly generated script (it is generated Javascript) it is pointless to do this. The failure of the Dreamweaver GUI makes it impossible to proceed with the lesson.
I tried to repair this situation be deleting the files and copying them anew from the CD ROM. then started again. The error was repeated.
My file setup is slightly different from the default. I always make an extra directory for the HTML files, named html
    ~/username/Documents/DW CIB/html/
    ~/username/Documents/DW CIB/css/
    ~/username/Documents/DW CIB/images/
    ~/username/Documents/DW CIB/js/
    ~/username/Documents/DW CIB/SpryAssets/
      and so on.
But this is not the problem, as the system is seeing this. For example, the links inserted to the pages are automatically correct:
   <link href="../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
Is there an issue here with Mac and Snow Leopard? Or are more people having these problems? Or am I missing something here?

Answer 1

Benjamin Rossen wrote:
I have a reason for using a different directory structure. I like to see all the .html files in alphabetic order, and not interrupted by the directories containing images, scripts and other resources. These directories are particularly disturbing if they are open.
You have two options:
Buy a Windows computer. Windows organizes files and folders that way by default.
On your Mac, expand the Files panel so you can see the Type column header. Click Type, and the files will be reorganized the way you prefer.
I put only the index.html in the site root, with a redirect on it to home.html in the lower directory, so that only one .html file is in the default root directory of the site. Now I know the Dreamweaver will not function correctly when I do this. 
I think this is not good. I recommend that Adobe augment the system to operate correctly for any file structure built by the user.
Dreamweaver does operate correctly for  any file structure, but it can't detect a redirect.