Do I have to start from scratch?

Guys, I need some help today!
I've been updating our motorcycle club website today, only ever created and edited with iweb and I'm using (as ever) my intel imac.
While finishing editing a new page, I get the spinning wheel of death and iweb crashes and disappears.
Sent the error report.
So, open's up my domain.sites2 file that I keep on a WD320 passport.
And there's nothing. Not even a blank page, there's really nothing.
I've checked the file and it's 760mb large, and I can look at the package contents.
I can't open the file and I've used the disk utility and everything checks out green.
I've rebooted, and disconnected the drive.
But when I try and open the file, it doesn't even open the web page editor.
Would anyone have any clue where to start or how to help?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Try the following:
Try the following:
1 - delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder.
2 - go to your User/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete the contents.
3 - reboot.
4 - double click on the domain file to open it with iWeb and see if its contents load.
If that doesn't help continue:
5 - delete the iWeb preference file again.
6 - launch iWeb, create a new test site and save.
7 - go to the your User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder and delete the new domain file.
8 - double click on the domain file on the external HD to open it.
See if that helps.
OT

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