Dreamweaver CS3 Design view is gone

I did a full page layout and everything looked great. I uploaded the site and it looks fine but there are a few things I need to change. I went back to Dreamweaver and the design view image is gone. All that shows is a gray image witha small box in the upper left corner that shows a small box that looks like a missing image icon? Anyway, nothing else. The code is still there and when I go to preview in browser, it still shows the site. I do most of my work in both design view and code so would really like to find a resolve to this. Thanks!
Link: http://www.jfusekdesign.com/index2.html

You have a problem with the markup of your page.. viewing the page in FFox I could see a line of stray 'text' at the very top of the page...
You need to fix the syntax here:
<body class="twoColFixRtHdr" onload="MM_preloadImages('images/print_button_f2.jpg','images/web_button_f2.jpg','images/emarketing_button_f2.jpg','images/portfolio_button_f2.jpg','images/contactButton_f2.jpg','images/printOffer2.jpg','images/webOffer2.jpg','images/flash_images/print.gif','images/flash_images/Web.gif','images/flash_images/emarketing.gif')" tracingsrc="Firewo<meta name="description" content="J Fusek Design offering customized, quality print and web design at very affordable prices." />
rks/JFD_Web_FINAL_2009.png" tracingopacity="0">
See the line before: <div id="container">
rks/JFD_Web_FINAL_2009.png" tracingopacity="0"> <------this is the line that is not closed correctly and is seen in the browser. Looks like it belongs to another line and somehow, maybe deleting something or other and this has been left behind.
Once you fix that section of the code, then put the page through the validator and check to see if there are other problems:
HTML Validator - http://validator.w3.org
CSS Validator - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
You have a few errors in the lightbox stylesheet that need correcting
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css21&warning=0&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. jfusekdesign.com%2Findex2.html
Hopefully once all the errors are eliminated the page will show correctly in DW. It only takes an unclosed tag for example, for the page to fail to show up in design view :-)

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>

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> Hi,
>
> I have a big absolutely positioned DIV tag in most of my
pages,
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> In DW CS3 design view very often (maybe 50% of all
times) if I click
> inside it
> to edit the text, DW selects the entire DIV tag. The
cursor becomes like a
> cross with arrows, the DIV border becomes outlined with
a thick blue line,
> and
> I can't edit the text no matter how much times I click.
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> mouse
> with left button pressed, this moves the DIV and changes
the .css file
> where
> the position is defined. DIV can't be de-selected with
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> right
> clicking.
> The only way to get out of this is to click somewhere in
the code view,
> then
> go back to design view where hopefully text can be
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> have to
> repeat this twice or even 3 times , it's extremely
annoying and time
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>
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> Like to disable selection of containers in design view,
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>
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>
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>
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~~~
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page in IE or FF
> and
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> I have seen others mentioning this problem on other
discussion boards but
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