Comments: wont publish/can't copy and paste

Question

Here is the story:
I created an iweb blog for my toddler and used the baby theme. Well, he grew bigger (he's over 3 now), and I wanted to change the theme to reflect his growth. So, I bought the new version of iweb so that I could change themes. Well, I changed the theme (to kid blue, the logical next step) and it was horrible. All my pictures were all over the text and each entry of his blog would have had to be cleaned up. This blog goes way back to the beginning of my pregnancy so I wasn't about to hand alter every single entry. I changed it back with minimal damage.
The result:
Since it is near impossible to simply change a theme without the entire blog going wonky, I decided to switch to wordpress so that I can change the theme whenever I want and not have to endure hours of fixing everything if I do. However, there is no nifty feature that allows wordpress to upload everything in iweb to the new wordpress blog, so I have to do it by hand. Copying and pasting, and uploading photos for each entry.
The problem:
When I went back to old entries in order to copy and paste the comments, the comments were no longer there. I republished the web site several times, getting errors each time. Finally I republished it without errors, and I went back to the old entries to grab the comments, but the comments still are not there! What is going on? Why wont my comments publish? I then went directly into iweb, found the entry, and tried copying and pasting the comments. It didn't work, it wont let me copy and paste. It wont let me pick them up and drop them onto a word file either. So, I either need my comments to publish so that I can copy and paste them, or, I need to be able to copy and paste them directly from iweb. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Honestly, this iweb experiment has been a nightmare, and I just want to get this over with ASAP. I love Apple, but they really need to rethink this program.
Message was edited by: Jennica

Answer 1

I do believe the missing comments are a temporary problem, most likely due to Apple working the bugs out of "Mobil Me". Many if not all of us are having the same issue. I noticed my comments were not showing on my blog and had been replaced by an error message as well. Be assured that your comments are actually "still there" but for some weird glitchy reason are not easily being published at this time. I suspect the problem will be fixed shortly but if you don't want to wait then do the following:
Open up iWeb, then click "File" then choose "Publish All To Mobil Me" from the drop down menu. It will literally publish your whole site to Mobil Me so it may take a little longer then normal to publish (mine took about 10 minutes). I just did this and my comments are all publishing just fine.
Hope this works for you.