Hit Counter disappeared. How can I get it back?

Question

I've read numerous posts re Hit Counter, but none helpful to this:
I publish only to MobileMe and have had no problem in the past. Problem is: today I removed lots of stuff I had added to my home page during the election campaigns. To remove them, I held down the Command key and dragged through lots of the stuff to select it, then hit Delete. I did not drag through the Hit Counter, nor the Apple logo, yet both of those disappeared too. Looking at the iWeb dropdown menu for adding these items, I saw that there was still a checkmark by the Hit Counter, but not by the Apple logo. So I clicked to check the logo, and it came back on the page no problem.
But the Hit Counter, already still checked, was nowhere to be found. I increased my footer enormously, and searched in that space... not there. Nowhere.
Next I unchecked and then rechecked the Hit Counter item in the menu. That didn't do it.
I hate to uncheck it and then publish, and then check it again and republish. That might work, but I'd lose my count perhaps.
How can I get back, or simply FIND, the Hit Counter on my page? The check mark says it's there, but I can't find it anywhere, have looked under lots of things on the page... nowhere!
Thanks, anybody who's got a clue.

Answer 1

Here's the solution:
It occurred to me to vastly increase (temporarily) the vertical size of my page. (Remember, doing this with the footer hadn't helped.) When I increased the page size to a whopping 4000, there was the counter AND the original Apple Logo. I moved them into place, then put the vertical page size back to something reasonable. The count was retained.
Thank you, self! (Sorry this didn't occur to me before posting, but since I have seen nothing of this advice in the discussion already, perhaps this will be helpful to someone else with the same problem.)
I'll send Apple some feedback and hope they consider adding a line or two to the iWeb Help in it's discussion of the Hit Counter, given that so many of us have encountered problems.