IWeb losing Quicktime poster frames upon publish

I have pages with many videos published, and have to painstakingly set the poster frame on every video.
Then if I make any changes and re-publish, ALL the poster frames are lost and I have to do it all again.
THIS IS AN AGONIZINGLY IRRITATING BUG and I may switch platforms just because of this one idiotic bug.
Any suggestions? Or are we just yelling into the Apple support cave?

This is a royal PITA. I have battled this for a long time and have created my own workaround. I too have a lot of videos. I create a video album in IPhoto. Then I create aan album page in IWeb and drag the Album into IWeb album page. I click the album and all of the videos show in the matrix. I set the poster frame like normal in each video. BTW, when you republish, all of the poster frames are reset to the actual 1st frame of video, which is usually black for me.
When you publish the first time, the poster frame gets renamed thumb.jpg. If you publish to a folder, the thumb.jpg resides in the same folder as the movie file. When you publish again, the thumb.jpg in IWeb gets changed back to the first frame of the video. What I do is save the folders with the correct thumb files in them. When I publish the site again, I only ever upload the new pages. Even though there is a choice to only publish changes, It redoes all of the files and folders in the new site folder. I thentake out of the second site folder that I published, the additional pages and upload those additional pages. I do this as I add to the site. That way, the original poster frames never get changed once they are uploaded. And since I save the original published files , I can always upload in case I accidentally republish the page.
Hope that's not too confusing.
Jeff

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