Podcasting .... fatcow and iWeb

Okay... So I've had my website hosted through fatcow for a long while. I develop with iWeb and then upload it directly (from iWeb) to fatcow. The website is www.chardonpolkaband.com
I recently added a podcast to my webpage and for the life of me-- I cannot get the rss feed to work and the subscribe feature up and running. Viewers are able to listen to individual podcasts from my site... and can click subsribe, but once in itunes... no podcast episodes actually show up. Furthermore, when I try to "publish podcast" via iweb, it gives me some sort of rss feed not found 404 error.
I am really not sure what I am doing wrong....
Any help would be appreciated.

Your feed is at http://www.chardonpolkaband.com/Radio_Podcast/rss.xml
However the link is to http://www.chardonpolkaband.com/CPB_Web_Site/Radio_Podcast/rss.xml because when using the FTP facility in iWeb it would expect the entire site to be in a folder called 'CPB_Web_Site', as explained by Wyodor above.
FatCow say
Go to FileManager
Look for the World icon in the directory structure in the left pane
Hover over the icon, and it should say DocumentRoot. Publish files to this directory, or its subdirectories.
Note: the actual directory name could be root, or public_html, or htdocs
You should check what the root directory is called and enter that as the Path. You will need to delete all your site's files on the server or they will remain there and confuse the issue.
If you then republish this should place the site files correctly. The access URL to your home page will remain the same but when you go there the URL which will show will be
http://www.chardonpolkaband.com/CPB_Web_Site/Welcome.html
and of course all the other pages will also show this directory (folder). The automatically generated link to the rss file will then be correct.
The alternative would be to remove that link (if iWeb allows this) and make one manually, linking to the actual URL for the feed I gave above.

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Already bumped
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4147654#4147654
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