Missing site definition details in DW CS6 site manager

I have half a dozen web sites built with DW CS6, but suddenly none of them can be edited with the Site Manager.
For example the Servers tab of the Site Setup window appears as below . . .
Anyone help with how to restore this?
I am using DW CS6 on OS X Lion, V 12, Build 5861
Thanks folks

that option fails to allow a "save" function to occur
Do you mean there is no 'Save' button that shows up?
Anyway, its not very hard to reinstall. Backup your Site Prefs (that you'd probably already done yesterday).
Use http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html to clean all traces of Dreamweaver CS6 alone. In one of the options you'll have to choose clearly 'DW CS6' only or it will get rid of all CS6 instances. Beware here.
Once this is done, use your install media (CD/ DVD) or .dmg file (if you downloaded it from your Adobe Account to continue with the installation.
Let us know how it goes.

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Does Putting the site to the remote server constitute an Export, whereby a .ste file would have been created during the Put process and, therefore, exist on the remote server?
No. Hit F1 and search for Export.
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa543837(v=office.14).aspx
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Are you attempting to simply open the .ste, or are you going to Site > Manage Sites > Import?
If you are tring to import them correctly (second option above) and they aren't importing, the .ste files may be corrupt. To create new site definitions from your existing content...
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In earlier versions of Dreamweaver, it looks like this:
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NOTE: This process backs up only the details of your sites, such as the location of the root folder, FTP details, and so on. It does not back up the actual files in your site, such as .html (or .php, .asp, .cfm) files, images, and style sheets. It's a good idea to use your normal file backup routine on your actual files from time to time, as well as exporting the site definitions.
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In the event of losing your site definitions in Dreamweaver or moving to a new computer, open the Manage Sites dialog box, and use the Import button to navigate to your backup .ste files.
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Since it’s a warning, I went ahead to build and deploy the solution. However, when I used the site definition template to create a subsite, it returned a parser error:
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Copy the full assembly name in the package’s manifest. It may be similar like this:
Assembly="TestSiteDef,
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Back to the site definition’s default.aspx page, replace the
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Assembly="TestSiteDef,
Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a300f1f2da8ae976"
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Namespace="TestSiteDef.VisualWebPart1"
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