IWeb won't open and display my domains

I have about 20 different sites in iWeb 3.0.4. I publish all to a folder on my HD and use iWeb SEO tool to publish them to GoDaddy. I was working on a site and when I hit "save" iWeb crashed. When I re-opened it all my sites were gone. It just showed a new blank site. My Domain.sites2. file is 950mb in size so it has to have all the info from the 20 sites. I double clicked on that .sites2 file and the same blank page came up in iWeb. Thinking the .sites2 file was corrupted I went to Time machine and restored my .sites2 file from an hour before the crash, using a different name for the .sites2 file so I could have different versions. Same blank screen. I restored 3 more older versions using different names but none would open iWeb showing my existing sites.
I re-installed iWeb from the iLife 11 DVD and still none of the 20 sites show up.  I used Disk Utility to repair permissions. Still no luck opening my sites.
Help!

See this page under "iWeb & Lion OS X 10.7" for how to open Domain files...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/iWeb-Tips.html

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    (b)  how do i get external hard drives to work with this OS (I've read lots of posts and don't really understand the advice)
    (c)  how do i get all my photos onto the hard drive safely so I can import them onto a PC
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    (c)  how do i get all my photos onto the hard drive safely so I can import them onto a PC
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