Ftp connection and Dreamweaver

Hi everyone,
I was all day long reading the posts in this forum and Adobe's about ftp connection issues with Dreamweaver. Hope somebody else has a new idea or experience to help me.
I have been working and updating 3 websites (different servers) with Dreamweaver 8 with no problem until yesterday. I'm pretty sure I didn't change any settings of my firewall or dreamweaver. But since yesterday I couldn't connect to just ONE of my websites. I always get the message: "Dreamweaver could not connect to the server. User canceled. Operation time out".
It's odd because when I "test" the connection on "remote settings" it does work. But when I try to only upload any file it doesn't.
So, I report to the server and it was not a problem with them. I tried to connect by ftp in Firefox and worked. So I realize it could be something with my ftp connection.
I tried to turn off my firewall, but still not working.
I tried to test the TCP/IP port 21 (and it is open).
I tried to delete the site definitions from Dreamweaver and re-create again, but no luck.
I just didn't re-install Dreamweaver because I'm afraid to lose the connection with my other 2 sites.
Does anybody have any tip, or link with similar issue that I can get some turn around???
Please any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Viv
MacBookPro2,2 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

But I don't understand why I get ftp connection with
2 websites and just one is not working??? should this
be happening if it was a "port" problem???
I can help clarify this. With FTP, there are TWO connections. The first is the control connection, and that occurs on port 21. This is where the authentication takes place, and where commands are passed from cliet to server.
The second connection is the data connection. This is where the transfer of data takes place (including a directory listing). There are two basic ways of establishing this connection, active and passive. In an active connection the server attempts to open a socket from port 20 to a random port on the client. This is the connection which is blocked by firewalls.
In passive mode, the server sends back a port number that it (or rather a child) is listening on. The client connects to the server on that port, and receives data. The problem is, that while this is happening, the control connection is idle. This may cause the control connection (and thus the entire protocol) to time out.
So there are quite a few things that can go wrong. If your server only supports active mode and you have a firewall which blocks its incoming connection, eventually the control connection will time out. If your server is load-balancing, or your router tries to recylcle ide connections, the control connection may be shut down. I don't know what's happening in your case, but I can tell you what may be happening with your ports. HTH.

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