IWeb is renaming my media folders

I created an album in IPhoto that has 10 videos in it. Then I created an album page in Iweb and dragged the IPhoto album into it. Then I published to a folder and uploaded to my site. It al worked great. I made several changes through the day and wen it was finally set the way I liked it, I went to my site and all of the videos except for two were gone from the album. I went back to IWeb and saw that all of the videos are where they are supposed to be. I went to my published folder and noticed in the media tab that all of my folders for each video have been renamed. Originally, my videos were named 1-10. The original media folders were also named 1-10. Now for some strange reason they are named (by IWeb) 1, 8_1, 8_2, 8_3 etc. So the page doesn't show my videos. I went to my site and simply re=named the folders back to 1-10 but it still won't work. I'm clueless!
Jeff

Many thanks
This worked and I think the difference between what I was doing and what you suggested was that my original scans had their Scan Source set to a subfolder of my Media Device, 'Media/Soaps' with my Emmerdale folder effectively being 'Media/Soaps/Emmerdale'
Setting up a new device and setting the Scan Source to the root of that device, did the trick.
Many many thanks
David

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