HELP - Lost my entire site, iweb opens as if never used!

Hello,
Lat time I published my site was Christmas eve and today when I tried to launch iweb it opens as if it was never used. I shut my computer down after Xmas Eve and just turned it back on. I really dont know where to look or what to do I am really freaking out as I have spent HOURS building my site and would hate to rebuild it from scratch.
Why would iweb do this? Where can I find the saved files?
Kristi

k.cozza wrote:
My OS is to old on this imac I don't have time machine.
Kristi ~ Your Public Profile indicates you're using Mac OS X (10.5.8) (Leopard) which has Time Machine. And there are plenty of other backup alternatives such as:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper
k.cozza wrote:
Will this download be able to resort the site into iweb?
No — iWeb can't import published HTML.
Although the situation doesn't look good, don't give up yet — perhaps someone else here will chip in with a suggestion.

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