Imagemaps out of Illustrator?

Illustrator seems to claim that it can export imagemaps, but I have failed repeatedly using CS5... I was wondering if there is a method in the program that I am simply missing.
Before I get started, please know that I am not looking for answers like "use Dreamweaver" or "Flash would do much better." I am dealing with a very complex map that would be incredibly painful do draw one-at-a-time in DW.  I have already done this project in Flash, but I am extremely unhappy with the results: Flash vector images cannot handle the complexity of curves I am dealing with and they look horrible, and besides I want to try some jQuery goodness with the maphilight plugin & the sweet low-bandwidth yumminess of PNG format.
So I am dealing with 34 different closed paths (in one layer.) But every time I output through "Save for Web & Devices..." I get nothing-- well, I get four polygons that are shoved into the lower right corner of the image. I can see them when I open the file in DW. I have tried to output to JPEG & PNG, but nowhere do I get any more imagemap options that what are in the Attributes panel.
Anyone know what I am missing? Or is it what I suspect: that Illustrator is completely useless for this task (and once again Adobe has left me holding my balls just when I need them most?) I dearly hope it is not the latter.

Here are screenshots & comments...
OK-- hopefully, you can see: polygon, with hash (repeated 34 times.) Each on its own layer--path & text grouped, only path mapped. Then Save for Web & Devices (image scaled down to 720px in PNG24 w/ transparency--HTML at default settings.)
Here is the screenshot of the resulting HTML file. You might be able to see that there are only a couple of maps--but they are rectangles, and not even anywhere close to the image!
I am wondering if you are doing this in CS5?

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