IWeb short URL "trick"

I've been reading a number of posts about how to arrive at a shorter URL for iWeb sites; many seem to involve either using some other site or registering a domain name - I administrate five already, I don' need no more steenkin' domains. Anyway,... I came up with the following "trick"; alright, so it's not much of a trick, but it seems to work for me. For those used to short URL's like:
http://homepage.mac.com/membername/
as your "site", you CAN have:
http://web.mac.com/membername/
if you publish to a folder instead of letting iWeb publish to .Mac on its own. On your iDisk, you'll find a "Sites" folder which represents your HomePage sites, and a "Web" folder which represents your iWeb sites. For my test, I published to a folder called "iWeb" (didn't matter - could have been "foo") and gave it the "short" URL as a reference (not that it needed it; it was only the canned "Welcome" page). I then copied ONLY THE CONTENTS of that folder directly into the Sites folder within the Web folder on my iDisk. I then went to the "short" URL:
http://web.mac.com/membername/
and it worked. Hope this helps; hope Apple also makes this a direct option within iWeb for those that only want to use their account for "a" site instead of multiple.
PowerMac G5 Dual 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.4) My other computers are also Macs

For a short URL, please check the comments related to this post at TUAW:
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/02/08/mac-blog-posts-simple-tip-for-homepage-iweb-redir ection/

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In http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=655367&tstart=0,
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Apnewbie said:
"If you have separate sites with separate Domain
files and published separately to .Mac, they will be
listed on your iDisk in alphabetical order and your
short .Mac url will point to the one at the top of
the list on the iDisk."
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Does this mean that if my preferred "top site" is in
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