Iweb website wont go on domain name

i purchased a domain name from network solutions, and made my iweb website, which i will be hosting with mpbileme.
i then changed the CNAME (alias) to web.me.com on www, and followed all the instructions, howevermy website has not been uploaded to the domain name i paid for. It is, however on my mobileme web adress.
any help please?
what am i doing wrong?

I am confused too. The question I want to ask is:
1. Why when you have uploaded your website directly to your server using ftp are you also publishing to MobileMe and using CNAME forwarding too? You do not need to do both.
2. Also, as you have already found out, your blog comments will not work and neither will the MME page counter if you upload to an external server. However, there are third party workarounds such as http://www.hitcounter.com and also using a Wordpress blog instead and linking to it from your site. If you have hosting at Network Solutions, then you can probably install Wordpress directly and can set up your blog like this.
3. When I used MobileMe and used CNAME what I had to do at my domain name registrar was delete the A records completely. There are normally two A records, one with www, A record and then the IP address that points to your server and then @, A record with an IP address that points to your server. What I had to do was to delete the A records completely and then enter www, then CNAME from a drop down box and web.me.com into where the IP address was. I then entered @, CNAME from the drop down menu and then web.me.com where the IP address was. Try and have a look and see if you can do this.
http://domain.com is your actual domain name with http://www.domain.com being a sub domain. That is why you need to enter both www and @ when you set up a new CNAME - www represents the sub domain with @ being the shortened domain name itself.
If Network Solutions have told you to enter web instead of www, then try this, but you still need to alter the IP address that is there and enter web.me.com in its place or the domain name will not be forwarded.
You also need to do the same for the @, so do this and then forward this to web.me.com.
Your problem with using CNAME is that you have a conflict in that you have uploaded your site to the server as well as trying to forward your domain name to MobileMe - you can use one or the other but you can't have both. Preferably, I would delete your site from your server and just use CNAME forwarding to MobileMe if you want the Blog and hit counter to work correctly.

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