Iweb publishing and udate problems

I can't get my iweb sites to publish at .mac, and I can't get iweb to check for updates.
I can upload to my idisk, I can get other Apple updates, all other web connections are working fine. I can publish the web site to a folder, including one on my idisk. I did publish a test (garbage) iweb site about a month ago, when I first got this machine, and the only way I was able to get rid of it was deleting the files from the idisk. Which I only did after trying to publish the most recent updates.
The error mesages I get are:
"The update server could not be contacted. Check your Internet connection or try again later." (when I try and update iweb)
"There was an error determining the .Mac publish configuration values. Please try again in a few minutes." (when I try and publish) I have tried the button and both publish choices on the file menu.

Use the second option shown on this page to publish to a local folder...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Publish-Website.html
The double click the index.html file to launch your site in the browser.
Make any changes in iWeb and republish.
iWeb stores the website data in a Domain.sites2 file. See this page...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/iWeb-Tips.html

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Anyone know what that means? Is it a .mac server issue or something in my computer or the software?
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Have you found a good solution to your problem yet? I had an issue like you describe, where I thought I had to enter my MobileMe user/pass when prompted when browsing.
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I haven't changed my settings in iweb (ILife 08) but recently when I test connection it says "connection to ftp._______ could not be established." If I haven't changed anything, why all of us sudden does it not establish a connection?

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More than a year ago I had a problem with my iWeb not publishing correctly: links to other websites would not open in a separate window as designed in iWeb. I got help from an AppleCare techie and after he did a lot of tests, he concluded I had a corrupted Domain file (which became apparent after I upgraded to OS Snow Leopard). I don't remember if I discussed with this techie another problem I had been having for as long as I had used iWeb, and that was "exploding" text: certain words, often italicized, would be huge, after publishing, relative to the surrounding text. Sometimes certain words, or sentences would be smaller than designed in iWeb. Through trial and error I would sort of solve these problems by enlarging text boxes, or making the offending word or phrase one text point smaller. Sometimes deleting the text box entirely, and starting over would work. And then there are the weird things that happen when my wife opens my website in Internet Explorer: things that make no sense and seem to be totally out of my control.
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Well you heard wrong didn't you!
Apple is discontinuing MobileMe, which is the hosting in favour of iCloud services which will not contain any hosting.
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An error occurred while publishing file "/Web/Sites/iWeb/Jim and Steph's Si

I'm guessing this is a common message most see when they try to publish their website. Reason I say this, is it is the only message I have recieved in the last week when trying to use this faulty software.
Here it is again if you missed it:
An error occurred while publishing file “/Web/Sites/iWeb/Jim and Steph's Site/Jim's Blog”.
I got this MacBook week ago yesterday. Totally excited to share pictures and blog information. Spent 99 dollars or close to it for a mac account to simply share this information on the web. The first four pages (all pictures), I published worked well. Then I updated to iWeb 1.1.1 and tried to publish with blogs and more pictures and it won't work. Now all that I published before does not even come up. I emailed support here on mac.com and got the generic reply that I have already read on this forum. I tired as many fixes as I could to no avail. Two questions:
1. Any ideas to fix this problem?
2. Can you get your money back?
Sorry this was so long.
Thanks everyone,
Jim B

Jim...
Try doing a "Publish All to .Mac" if nothing else works for you. And if I could make a recommendation, it probably wouldn't be a bad thing to simplify your site name (Jim and Steph's Site) and eliminate the apostrophes (also in Jim's Blog). A longer site URL with complexities such as punctuation and spaces and even capitalization can potentially wreak havoc on your site navigation and function. Simplifying your site and page names will at the very least lead to shorter and more recognizable URLs...and when you start to add more pages it will also make the navigation menu at the top of your pages look "cleaner". Think simple names, like "oursite" and "HeSays" or "SheSays"
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I have mac book pro 10.5 Leopard
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The application iweb quite unexpectedly. The problem may have been caused by the FTPKit Plug-in.
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Reinstall iWeb from the source you got it from originallhy. Or, if you're running iWeb 3 download and apply or reapply the iWeb 3.0.4 updater. It included that plugin.
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Actually, somehow, I just solved both problems. I opened up iWeb 9 and it seemed to resolve both issues. Sorry for any confusion.
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Problems with iWeb publishing to MobileMe

Hi,
Did you have some problems since about four days on publishing with iWeb to MobileMe? In my case, when I publish my site - and I made just little changes - iWeb publish ALL the pages.
I early had this same problem, this spring, and it was a MobileMe problem; Apple just made a little update to the server and it was ok.
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Thanks

With a lot of media content have you considered other ways of adding movies or audio tracks that only require you uploading those file manually once and then linking to them. For movies this demo page has one possible method: Opening Item in a New, Precisely Sized Window. This demo page has 7 movies added that way. They don't load until the play button is selected. PhotoPresenter Animated Slideshow Themes
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Hey y'all-
Here is the deal. I am running iWeb 09 and have had no problems... until tonight. I publish to my MobileMe regularly through the three sites that I run from my MobileMe account.
I made some changes to several pages on each of the sites and the normal "blue" for no change and "red" for change was working. When I first open iWeb, they show correctly. When I go to upload one of the sites, all of the pages on all of the sites go to red. The circle gets to the very end and freezes (tried it overnight).
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I have not tried to Time Machine back to a week or so ago, I might this morning just to try it. Anyway, it looks like that is likely not the issue anyway; check out this other forum thread, we are not the only ones... <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1956238>

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Its just a question of installing the later version of iWeb from the iLife disk and opening your website in that version. Its a good idea to have a backup of your Domain.sites2 file before doing this. See this page for its location...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/iWeb-Tips.html
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http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Publish-Website.html
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