Moving website to a new .Mac account

I have made a website for my husband using iWeb and my .Mac account - very pleased with it etc, but have changed today to Family membership of .Mac. Is there anyway I can move his website to his own sub-account to free up my account for my own website?
I have tried copying the Sites folder from my iDisk to his, but I don't have enough priviledges??!!
Just a G4 iBook now... Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi weaseldropping,
I have never played with the family pack, but here is my theory!
Set up a Second User account on our Mac for your husband (If you haven't done so already) and copy this file to the same location in the second user:
User/Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites
The domain file contains your whole website
If you have just created the second user account, launch iWeb before moving this file, this will create the /iWeb folder and a domain file. You can delete the new domain file and drop in the domain file from your original user.
Once you have got a domain file in place, you need to set up his .mac details in Applications/System Preferences > .Mac.
Now when he publishes from the second user it should publish to his area on the iDisk.
There is some general info here: http://web.mac.com/will.englefield/iWeb/WillG4PB/2Sites1Mac.html
Will
1GHz G4, 15" PB, 1.5GB RAM, Airport Network, 4 GB iPod Mini (1G), 60GB iPod (5G) Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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