IWeb won't save my domain

I recently had my computer reformatted from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion 10.8.2.  I backed up via Time Machine and now want to bring the two sites I was working on in iWeb back so I can continue working on them.
After adding Domain.sites2 page to the hidden user/library/AppSupport/iWeb folder I opened it up in iWeb.  All appeared to be fine until I went to save it.  It read "iWeb is unable to save this domain".
I've tried this:
delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your Home()/Library/Preferences folder.
go to your Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete its contents.
launch iWeb and try again.
If that doesn't help continue with:
move the domain file from your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder to the Desktop.
launch iWeb, create a new test site, save the new domain file and close iWeb.
go to the your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder and delete the new domain file.
move your original domain file from the Desktop to the iWeb folder.
launch iWeb and try again.
But neither of those soloutions worked for me.  I also changed the permissions, but that didn't work either.  I've searched online and nothing I've come across seems to help.  What else is there?  I'm sure I'm missing something that is simple...I just don't know what it is.
Any help would be great.
Thank you.

Holy crud!!  I solved the problem. After 24 hours of working on it.  Here's the deal just in case others ask.
I literally tried everything everyone was telling me...nothing worked.  I sent it to a friend of mine (running, as I am, the latest version of ML and iWeb) via Dropbox.  I had to, of course, zip the file in order for him to be able to get it.  He opened in up, put it in the App Support / iWeb folder and opened it up on iWeb.  He hit File / Save and it worked!!!
So I had him send it back to me the same way...it works fine now.  Not sure how or why.  Again, I was able to open the file and make changes, it just wouldn't allow me to save the changes.  Something about the ziping of the file (I'm assming that's what it was) made whatever the problem was go away.
You guys probably understand this much more than I do, but I figured I would tell you what my solution was just incase you run into it again.
Thank you for your help.

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