IWeb won't publish changes

I made changes to my first page and I've tried everything (I think) to get the new page up on .Mac. Emptied cache, viewed in Safari, IE & Firefox, deleted my entire site from .mac. I've tried changing the linked buttons and publishing to .mac. I've tried publishing all to .mac.
I do have the site published on a separate server but need this link operating properly. Could there somehow be a conflict with the pages on another server? At any rate I've deleted every old file I can find on my mac, on .mac, on my other server...
Of course this happened about 20 minutes after announcing the site to prospective clients.
Thanks for any clues.

I just tried publishing all and got a error message on one of the files. The time before that it said the .mac server was busy.
Here's the site:
http://web.mac.com/patrickfifth/iWeb/EstanciasInArgentinaiweb/EstanciasInArgenti na.html
It seems the biggest issue is the first page, once it finally seemed to replace the old page with the new it converted the text all weird.
Thanks for your help.

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Hi, very frustrated. Have spent two days designing my iWeb website, then when I finally click the 'Publish' icon, I get "Preparing to Publish..."
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