Podcast page blank, but entries/archive okay?

Help! iWeb has lost its natural mind this morning. I'm using a podcast page as a blog page, dropping in photos and text, because I like the look/layout of that page better in the template I'm using. Normally, it works fine. Today, the main page with the description and links has DISAPPEARED. Nothing appears in iWeb. The subpages are fine; the entries are all there, and the archive seems okay, but the main page is toast. I've deleted the .plist and cache files and restarted, but no dice. I'd really rather not have to copy everything over to a new page, but since you can't fiddle with just one part of the file, I don't know what to do to force it to play nice. Any suggestions?

I've never seriously considered using the iWeb podcast because, apart from the problem you are describing, the files require that the end user has the QuickTime plugin and the vast majority of PC users don't.
After reading your post I decided to experiment.
Up until now, the obvious way to load the media file would have been in a flash player. This is not the answer now due to the increasing number of devices using iOS.
To simplify matters at this stage I used a file that's uploaded to Vimeo and employed an iFrame code in an HTML Snippet to display it on the iWeb page. This should play on most devices, browsers and operating systems but, I guess, won't autoplay on the iPad/iPhone.
Does this work?
http://web.me.com/roddymckay/Web-Media-Test/Podcast/Podcast.html
Right now, I haven't even considered how this will effect the RSS URL generated by iWeb. The contents of the rss.xml file look fairly sensible but who knows? I'll leave that to someone who actually knows something about podcasting!

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