LINKING TO SITE ALREADY PUBLISHED ON .MAC

Hi,
I have recently changed computers following a disk failure. I use .Mac and iDisk to back up all personal files and therefore no data was lost, but there is one rally annoying problem: I cannot link the newly installed iWeb to my pubished pages on .Mac.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem, or is the uploading of pages from .Mac simply not yet supported. Any help is greatly appreciated.

You .Mac homepages and iWeb published pages are kept in separate areas and are mutually exclusive of one another. You can continue to edit your .Mac homepages via the .Mac Homepage interface, but you will not be able to edit them through iWeb. The reverse is also true...iWeb published pages can only be edited within iWeb.
You can, however, link the two of them so that they appear to your visitors to be one webspace. This is done by providing links to each on either webspace. WillG4PB has an excellent tutorial explaining the whole process of Redirecting to and from .Mac and back. Check it out here...
http://web.mac.com/will.englefield/iWeb/WillG4PB/How2.html
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