My personal domain name takes me to another site. Need Help.

I created 2 sites in iweb - one for myself and one for a friend.
My personal domain is on my dot mac account.
My friend's is on her dot mac account.
When I type my URL into my browser it goes to my friend's site.
My domain is:
http://www.eggstardesign.com.au
When I type it in it becomes:
http://www.eggstardesign.com.au/GreenWith_EnvyInteriors/Home.html
and goes to the Green With Envy site.
However, when I'm logged into my dot mac acct and I click on 'my pages' it takes me to my site:
http://www.eggstardesign.com.au/graphic_design/home.html
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening and how i can fix it?
Thanks.

Hey Chuck,
WebForward is less complicated and just works...
Differences between WebForward, WebForward with cloaking and CNAME:
- WebForward: after you typed yourdomain.com in the browser you get forwarded to web.mac.com/username/ and web.mac.com/username/ will display in the browser
- WebForward with Cloaking: after you typed yourdomain.com in the browser yourdomain.com will display in the browser and don't change while people browse through your website
- CNAME yourdomain.com will display instead of web.mac.com/username/ and while browsing through your website it will look like yourdomain.com/sitename/nameofpagepeoplelookatnow.html
In CNAME yourdomain.com stays in the url the browser displays while your visitor visits the site and changes the part after .com to fit the page they're visiting... It's simply looking better than putting in yourdomain.com and then web.mac.com appears and yourdomain vanishes......

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