IWeb 2009 - Crash & Domain.Site possible corruption?

I was working on a webpage that I publish to my MobileMe account. Created the Welcome page, no problem, when I got to the "My Albums" is when my crashing problem begain. Something regarding a Kernal Exception (SGID).
These were the steps:
Created Album on "Sites" list in iWeb.
Selected a template from presets.
(this is where the problem began). I dragged a MobileMe Gallery I created in iPhoto, into the templates "drag and drop album here" element on the Album page in iWeb.
The Domains.site2 file it was using, would crash iWeb everytime.
I deleted (moved Domains.site2) to trash, and iWeb would once again, load.
I created another site, saved it, then moved it to another folder, so I would be prompted by iWeb to create or choose a domain site.
I chose the Domain.site2 file that had been causing the iWeb crashes, and it loaded.
When I attempted to select the album page under "My Albums", it would crash everytime. But I could at least still load iWeb. But there was no way to remove the "corrupt?" album page from Domains.site2. So basically, I had to start over.
Now, I go to create a new Domain site, I publish it to my MobileMe web/site. But the Domain.site file could not be found anywhere! Perhaps, instead of using ".site" or "site" as the root name, I named it "The Art of t.king", caused this?
So my question is:
1.) How do I avoid creating corrupt Domains.sites? can I not use Galleries created in iPhoto that are MobileMe sync enabled? I "thought" it would be nice, if the website album auto-updated content when updating the MobileMe Sync'd Gallery in iPhotos.
2.) Do the suffices of Domain.Sites have to be "sitesxxxx"? is this why I lost my last Welcome page / Domain.TheArt_oft.king? (it shows on mobile me browing "/web" contents.

InterAd wrote:
How can I find the real domain file? or is it gone?
Welcome to the discussions. Try using Spotlight to search for the latest Domain file. ...It has an extension (usually hidden) of:
.sites2
But Spotlight doesn't look in all areas of the hard drive — so if no luck, download and run Find File to search for ".sites2".
InterAd wrote:
Can I recover the file from the published site?
No.
Or do I have to rebuild it from scratch?
You'll have to if you can't find the Domain file.
And it's not only your Domain file that you may lose; as someone wrote:
"Be very careful with those domain filed. You lose them and your toast."

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