Help! iweb is eating my website!

I'm building a site for my business. It includes 3 picture galleries. I've been working on adding pictures last night, saved every thing, closed the mac book and walked away. Today I open up iweb, go to one of my galleries and the page is blank! No pictures, not even a template, just a white empty page. The other galleries are still there and both appear in the main gelleries index page. The missing gallery's name still appears in the left navigational window.
What on earth happened? How do I get my page back? If it's gone for good, how can I be sure this won't happen again? I've put many hours of hard work into this site, this is rather unnerving! The site isn't even published yet.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Close iWeb, delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple. iWeb.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder, launch iWeb and see if that helps.
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