Deleting iweb site from mobileme

I have moved my web site to a new hosting service.  All OK. 
However, I realise now that I did things in the wrong order really.  I wanted to leave a stub on the old MobileMe site redirecting my audience.  I did this by deleting my website from MobileMe on my iDisk (I stupidly did not delete the index.html file - but have realised my error and redeleted my 'new' stub website and the index.html file and then republished.  Even though I gave the site the same name as my old site MobileMe has insisted on changing it by taking off the last letter and adding _1, so that when anyone tries to visit the old site they just get a whole lot of stuff from MobileMe which is not useful.
I realise now I should first have duplicated my site - given the duplicate a new name and published this to the new host, deleted all the pages from my original website except the new Home page, and republished this to MobileMe.  Alas I did not do this.  Is there any way of getting my 'new' marker website to publish to the original MobileMe address? 
I guess it's no big deal really.  Mine is not a major website - it's just a family history website (now at www.dearmanmollett.id.au - originally http://web.me.com/dearmanmollett/Dearman_Mollett_Family ( think))  After all MobileMe will make it all disappear anyway on June 30 I assume - but I would really like to delete all trace of the former website except for a marker site redirecting traffic.
Hoping at the very least that my problem will help others.

You could replace the first page of the old site on MMe with a blank one containing an HTML snippet with the following code:
<script type="text/javascript">
parent.window.location = "URL TO SITE YOU WANT TO REDIRECT TO"; </script>
Thanks to Cyclosaurus for this code
When a visitor lands on the page they will immediately be redirected to your new website.
OT

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