Dreamweaver CS3 Preview in Browser

HI there
Dreamweaver CS3 seems not to be forgiving program at all. I
still currently work on the old Dreamweaver MX 6 which proves to be
the good old faithful engine.
Anyway I wanna make this move to DMWCS3 but Its a little of a
culture shock.
Here's the Problem:
I successfully setup the testing server using the wizard to
create a new site, which shows to be successful (
http://localhost/). when you click
TEST URL.
Here's the kicker:
When It's time to preview the page "All you see is "The
source code in the browser". In the old version of Dreamweaver
everything works just fine. Are these programs conflicting with
each other? What the hell is going on?

fnOptionF12 will work.
fn tells the keyboard to send the F-xx instead of the special function.
And like I said there is an option in the System Preference to reverse the use of fn and make the F-xx keys work as F-xx instead of the special function.

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Mac (using DW CS3)
>
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Browser window:
>
> "File not found
> Firefox can't find the file at /Mac Mini
> HD/Users/pat/Sites/CT/index.html."
>
> I get the same error more or less in Safari.
>
> The correct path should be
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>
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> Thanks, Pat
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