Iweb - a film editor's NIGHTMARE - need thumbnails on one page...!

I'm a film editor and I have put my portfolio / my reel online in the past year using iweb and my site is separated into four pages and with mpeg4 movies on each page as thumbnails that the viewer can click on to watch one at a time. The spots are roughly :30 to :60 secs long. When it worked... I had six small movies with an average size of 5mgs each and they only play one at a time.
I had to re-layout my site in iweb in February and ever since republishing it again many times; I have had intermittent drop out on every page. For example; the little video camera icon which makes the thumbnail active is not there after publishing and the movies do not show up in the slideshow - only black holes show up so I cannot play them.... I went into my idisk and trashed all the media and reloaded it so there was no confusion on where the idisk needed to find each media file. I have republished it many times and created several different files exported from fcp through compressor and made mpeg4, mov 800 streaming, move 300 streaming, H264 and a regular qt export from fcp - nothing is working... yikes!
Should I forego using iweb or am I putting my media files in the wrong place and in the wrong format? Must I create links to my media files and only have one movie on each page. I have noticed that most professional editing websites like have many thumbnails on a page - how'd they do that?
Check out this site - this is what I would like to do..... I also know how to use Flash CS3 but do not know how to publish a site online - if I can do anything in Flash I would be happy to...!

Welcome to the discussions. An alternative to thumbnails is to use a "player" with coverflow to select the videos from. I haven't used this Embedr player, so I don't know if it will simply work in iWeb's HTML Snippet Window...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/01/embedr-lets-you-create-and-share-good-looki ng-video-playlists/
Vimeo recently re-designed their player:
_Vimeo cuts the clutter with a sexy redesign_
Or there's the YouTube approach:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/20/youtube-launches-custom-player-feature/
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