Non .Mac publish with Automator / AppleScript?

Hi folks!
Currently I am using the following procedure to publish my iWeb site to my ISP:
- "publish to folder..." option in iWeb
- copy saved content from an extra folder over the new one (slideshow, PHP tweaks, small images)
- sychronize local and remote folder with Captain FTP (only updated files)
Is there any way to script these steps using the Automator (or even apple script)? Unfortunately it seems neither iWeb nor Captain FTP is "Automator-enabled" as I couldn't find any actions of them...
Bye, Matthias
iBook G4, Mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.4)

So how does Captain Ftp check which file has been changed?
By size or date?
I have been thinking about doing something similar with Transmit.
The problem is that you can't check the date since you have to export all the pages when you do an export. It's all or nothing with iWeb.
That means that ALL the files gets updated.
I created a simple worklow in Automator that uses ftp to transfer the specific blog-directories.
So that I don't have to ftp my whole site everytime I update my blog.
Unfortunately, I have to upload my whole blog every time since the file naming convention is a bit strange.
Would have been better with a numbering system, or something else.

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