.Mac Homepage vs. iWeb

Prior to upgrading to iLife 06, I uploaded photo albums to my .Mac homepage. Now that I am running iLife 06, by default I can only publish photos from iPhoto using iWeb. I noticed that publishing using iWeb creates a site address of ...web.mac.com/xxxxx. So what happens to my ...homepage.mac.com/xxxxx site? Is this site now defunct because I can't seem to republish existing photo albums to my "homepage" site. Hope this makes sense.
17 " PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  
17 " PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

My only complaint so far, aside from the poor blogging implementation, is that when making changes, it republishes all sites, instead of simply republishing the page with the change.
I've tested it with only one site, and now with two, and each change results in iWeb republishing all information, which seems wasteful to me. So, if I have more than one photo page, which I normally do, it wastes time and bandwidth republishing all the pages for all sites, regardless of whether there's any changes.
That's about the only thing I prefer about publishing photos to Homepage, the speed in posting photo sites.
iWeb seems comparable to Macromedia's Contribute product in terms of design and usage (albeit missing Contribute's greater layout flexibility and customization), and certainly its integration with iPhoto and .Mac gives it greater potential.
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