Contribute CS3 managing iWeb site

I am trying to get Contribute CS3 to manage an iWeb site. Right after selecting a .mac website, and hitting Continue, it hangs...
I suspect the problem lies somewhere in iDisk, or iWeb, but I can't find a solution on the Adobe site or anywhere in .Mac.
Any ideas?
Sean

My recollection is that Contribute just does not support managing an iWeb site, only a Homepage site.

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    Hi guys,
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    I can now content manage my iWeb sites! - i can only manage what content is already there and add to it within the framework that i have created - as in it wont create new pages for example, but i can even change the images.
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    Hi jenster 81,
    Thank you for posting, it might help some people. But I want to point out that what you have (nice looking site by the way) is not what most people want to edit from other locations. Most people want to be able to edit or add to their blog. And that cannot be done with cushy if comments from iweb are on. It could possibly be done if using icomment. I have not tried it so I don't know, but I thought I would post the warning in case someone tries it and looses all their comments.
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    I would like to create a website in iWeb '09 which will require multiple users to contribute/publish content, but the other site collaborators do not have Macs, just Windows-based PCs.

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  • Has anyone tried editing an iWeb site with Contribute or Dreamweaver?

    Before iWeb, I liked using Adobe Macromedia Contribute to edit the.Mac homepages. I've been giving iWeb a spin, and it seems to occupy the same place in Apple's stable as the rest of its siblings — a pre-pubescent version of Contribute, which is a subset of Dreamweaver.
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  • I had a drive failure and lost the iWeb file along with other things.   I did manage to save a lot of user file documents but I don't see or   recognize the my iWeb site file. It was on a 15" G4 Titanium pb. I'm trying to find a way, using version 2.0.4

    I had a drive failure and lost the iWeb file along with other things. 
    I did manage to save a lot of user file documents but I don't see or 
    recognize the iWeb site file. It was on a 15" G4 Titanium pb.
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    <http://web.mac.com/danauerbach>
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    [email protected]

    Unfortunately iWeb cannot read or import previously published files, only generate them.  You'll have to recreate your site from scratch.
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  • Client can't edit site with Contribute CS3

    I put a site online last week (www.dunelakeslodge.co.nz) and
    supplied my
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    connection key.
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    me) is already editing it. Please contact blah, blah...".
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    got a similar
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    and I was
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    Dave

    I'm sure someone here will be able to help, but just curious
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    "Dave Addison" <[email protected]> wrote in
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    >I put a site online last week (www.dunelakeslodge.co.nz)
    and supplied my
    >client with Contribute CS3 to update it, supplying her a
    connection key.
    >
    > She is connecting OK, but when she tries to edit a page
    she gets a message
    > saying she "can't edit this page because Dave Addison
    (that's me) is
    > already editing it. Please contact blah, blah...".
    >
    > I have connected to the site myself with Contribute 3,
    and got a similar
    > error: "you can't edit this site because you are already
    editing it on
    > another computer"!!
    >
    > It gave me the option to "unlock" the page, which I
    selected, and I was
    > then able to edit the page. However, my client still
    can't.
    >
    > Anyone got a solution to this?
    >
    > thanks
    > Dave
    >

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  • Edit blog with Contribute CS3

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  • Can i move iWeb site control from one computer to another?

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  • How do I move my iweb site to another account?

    I have built my wife a web site on my computer on my .mac account using iweb. But I want to move it over to my wife's .mac account on her computer. Essentially to have it live on her computer and not mine. How do I do this? HELP!
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  • IWeb site blank in IE, but perfect in Chrome, Firefox, Safari

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    Removing the first line of every HTML document permits the site to load in IE.
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    Good Afternoon,
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