IWeb '08 works when logged-in as 'root' user

Hi,
iWeb '08 converted my old sites and crashed. Since then, iWeb crashes when starting. I logged-out and logged-in as root, in this case iWeb can open my old sites. But, if I log-in again as usual (not root) then iWeb refuses to open my old sites... Any help?
follow-up:
I changed the permissions of 'Domain.sites2' and then iWeb seems to open it and suddenly crashes again...
Xtoff
Message was edited by: Christophe THEVIGNOT

I had a similar permission error message when attempting to publish, that also said that the disk could be full. Turned out to be that I had a mp3 file name with an equals and / sign in it - must have been an illegal character? The old iWeb didn't choke on it for some reason...
Might not apply to you, but I hope this helps -

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