Downgrade to iWeb 08

How do I downgrade back to iWeb 08? iWeb 09 is too freaking buggy, keeps quitting on me whenever I try to open one of the pages.

Better question is what software do I need to do this?
TextEdit would do.
Here is the nitty gritty, please follow this it:
1) back up you Domain.sites2 package, heck while you are at it... back up your whole home folder; there is more important stuff in your home folder than the stupid Domain.sites2
2) control click on Domain.sites2 and select 'Show Package Contents'
3) Finder opens a new window, there you find 'index.xml.gz' , double click it to decompress it to index.xml ... you might have to repeat step 2 to get back inside Domain.sites2, then
4) open index.xml file with TextEdit
5) search for the text --> bl:version=
6) you find something like --> bl:version="92008102400"
7) change the value 92008102400 to 72007061400 so it'll be bl:version="72007061400"
8) save it (the index.xml)
9) switch back to Finder, open the edited Domain.sites2 with iweb2, the sure way is to drag-n-drop the edited Domian.sites2 on to iweb2(.app) ... it might ask you to upgrade, do so.
10) with any luck, your Domain.sites2 will open with iweb2, select one of the page in the sidebar (left side) and svae it (command-s)
Your Domain.sites2 is now back to iweb08 (your milage might/will vary )

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    Plus Iweb worked in the previous version, why did I spend my money to have something that doesn't work and have almost no new feature (Plus some more templates, never used templates after all)?
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    Apple software should be easy and immediate to use. This new IWeb is just unusable and buggish. That's absolutely baaad.
    We want our shadows back and we don't want only people using IE or Safari to be able to browse our sites. Isn't that maybe, if someone wants to think really nasty about it, a move to have more people use Safari???
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    You know, I thought I was going crazy when I noticed no shadows in Firefox and found page after page of people just accepting Apple's iWeb message that Firefox does not support shadows and this is an expected result. I could have sworn the shadows were there just two weeks ago. But then it dawned on me that when my wife had been using iWeb 06 before her iMac popped it's caps finally and went up in smoke. The her new iMac has iWeb 08.
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    OK, while I do appreciate the new layout control, iWeb seems like a siginificant downgrade from the old .mac homepage application for displaying photographs.
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    Mike...
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