IWeb quits whilst publishing

Has anyone else had problems publishing to .Mac?
I've had iWeb 1 since it came out & been very impressed with its ease of use. The version 2 came out & I could no longer use it as it quit on me every time I tried to publish.
I have found a work-around for this problem! I wonder if anyone else needed to hear it who is also struggling to use the updated iWeb with dotMac?
Please pass this on to everyone else who may need to know.
I copied my file with my current websites previously published through iWeb to dotMac called: 'Domain.sites2' to a seperate drive for safe-keeping. This is found in USER>>LIBRARY>>APPLICATION SUPPORT>>iWEB>>domain.sites2.
Then uninstalled the iWeb application using "AppDelete" (A free app. which removes all the associated files).
I re-installed iWeb with iLife 08.
I then installed the iLife Support 8.1 update. Apparently iLife 08 needs to be updated by this patch before the iWeb 2.0.2 update patch.
Then I updated iWeb to 2.0.2.
iWeb now allows me to publish to dotMac as it always had before version 2.
The problem arose because when I first installed iLife 08 the software automatically, immediately updated iWeb to 2.0.2 without alerting me to the iLife Support 8.1 which needed to be installed first.
Is there any way stop the iLife 08 install searching for iWeb update before iLife update? This would probably prevent many other Apple Mac user from the frustration I have gone through. I nearly gave up on iWeb altogether.
Hope this can help someone else.
Cheers
Steve Bloor

I'm having the identical problem, but the solution you outline did not resolve it. I'm still getting quits during publishing (after page creation is complete, but before upload commences), with a ton of malloc errors in the console.log file.
Very, very frustrating. The first real problem I've had with iWeb since v1.0.

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