Missing Files (images)??!

I have created a website using iWeb 3.0.4. I have added text & images. Every time I go to publish what I've already saved again, my images are missing & I get the "missing files error message". Help! Do I have to continue to re-add forever? What's up with this? It's driving me crazy. None of my other iWeb sites do this....; (
THANKS for any help.
Sunny

All of the photos in your site display for me and the Activity window for the site does not indicate any missing images or files.
Try the following:
delete the iWeb preference files, com.apple.iWeb.plist and com.apple.iWeb.plist.lockfile, that resides in your Home() /Library/Preferences folder.
go to your Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete its contents.
Click to view full size
launch iWeb and try again.
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    I was hold on the phone to tech support from 6-7 last night and have been on hold with tech support since 10 am and it is now 1:30 on the west coast. I can't do much of any of my work as all my files, editing, printing are tied to LR. i got desperate and even tried creating a new catalog but when i clicked the photos on my tree in explorer to add them to a new catalog lr couldn't see them. i have avg software and no virus, i can see my photos in explorer, adobe cs3 and in bridge. i haven't changed the placement of the folders on my computer, any changes i have done have been within lr and they were mainly adding new meta tags which also didn't come thru and renaming some of the files from 2009-3-9 to adding pt scenery etc.
    i'm totally frustrated, i have spent so much time on hold i had to run out and spend $40 to buy a land phone so i could sit here without my phone battery dying. any suggestions while i sit here? i'm afraid to hang up on cs as i have been disconnected twice and they must have some sort of order in answering however at this point in time i can't figure it out.

    i have been so busy trying to find the files i just went back to some older files and found that the same rendering problem still exists. i open a folder click on a photo in the filmstrip and it automatically changes before my eyes, for a second i see a message that says rendering setting changed. i didn't touch a thing it just does it. i have gone into the syn and checked that everything is unchecked and it still happens. is there some other place for the rendering setting to be changed? it can't be a preference that i've accidently changed?
    For those photos that are changing, I can think of two things that it may be:
    If images are edited outside of Lightroom (in Camera Raw, etc), that can change the metadata (or Develop settings) of the file.  When you view the file next time in Lightroom, the new conflicting settings are applied to that photo.
    When raw files are imported into Lightroom, they initially appear with the embedded camera-generated JPEG preview. After that, Lightroom generates its own previews which typically look different than the original ones.
    Not sure if it's either one of those.
    so you think i can just click on your link and do the 2.4 update and things should work? i'm just not sure i want to do a backup with all the missing files, won't 2.4 open up with all the same problems or do you think the file naming issue will be corrected?
    I'm not saying that upgrading to 2.4 will necessarily fix the way things are now.  I doubt that it would make it worse, though.  I think you should make sure your photos and catalog are backed up, which it sounds like you said they are, then upgrade to 2.4 (if you're not already running that version).
    After the upgrade, you can go through your catalog and clean things up.
    -Scott

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