Ical, iweb won't open

I have recently purchased a 2011 macbook pro. It was an open box/demo at Best Buy and did not have the "restore" discs with it. I upgraded from an older macbook pro, transferring my files via firewire. Everything worked fine. Then I swapped the memory between the two units, to bring the new macbook up to 8G. After upgrading the memory, most everything works fine, but iCal, and iWeb will not open and give an error upon trying to launch. I cannot reinstall the applications, since I do not have the original discs. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you in advance!

keys07:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Try deleting the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that's located in your User/Library/Preferences folder. Often a file will get damaged or corrupted and prevent the application from launching. Worth a try.
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I got this message before when I was editing multiple Domain.sites. I believe it happened when I tried to Publish when the Domain was not in the iWeb folder. During the Publish, it places a Domain file in the iWeb folder (maybe because it has to publish from there even though the actual file is elsewhere??) and if anything goes wrong, iWeb when it next opens will default to that improperly created Domain.sites file.
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