Iweb doesn't recognize saves site

I was working on two separate projects. When I wanted to work on one i would close iweb. Go to iweb folder, remove it! and drag in other site. This has been working for months, and than suddenly when dragged a copy over it didn't recognize the pr existing site and the drop-down came down for templates. I deleted the plist, copied iweb and put new copy in application, did repair permissions. Nothing works. I still have some backups, but whenever I drag those in they get overwritten as well. Please help! someone. Thanks Mark

What were the titles of the domain files you used? I rename the domain files to represent the site name, i.e. Christmas08.sites2, etc. Then iweb will display that file by the name of the site inside. When you open that site via iWebSites it renames that site to domain.sites2. You do your thing, publish and quit. If you open a second site (NOT named domain.sites2) it will change the current domain.sites 2 site back to the name you gave it, change the second site's name to domain.sites2 and open. The last opened site will have the file name of domain.sites2.
So if any of your domain files were left as domain.site2 that would be the reason you were having the problem.
My list of domain files in my User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder looks like this. What I see in iWebSites looks like this.
So make additional copies of each domain file from your backups, name them for the site inside, put those two files in the iWeb folder and open iWebSites again. That should solve your problem.
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