Preserve filenames in A3 web gallery?

Is there a way to use original filenames (version or master doesn't matter) for the jpg files created for web galleries as opposed to the 'picture-1, picture-2..' renaming convention? I see this question dating back to 2006 but no solutions yet. As noted elsewhere, this is a problem for anyone who has clients that download files from web previews as the filenames are not preserved.
Please note, I am not talking about displaying the filename along with the web preview, but the actual filename of the jpg file used for the web preview - as displayed in the url window and/or the filename of the web preview image if saved to disk.
I've taken a quick look at the files inside the 'web themes' folder in the Aperture package contents but don't see anything on first look there that could customize this.
I'm using A3.2.1 on osX10.6.8
any help would be much appreciated, or even a definitive 'no' - that this is something done inside of Aperture that is not cutomizable.
thank you.

Ernie Stamper wrote:
The fact remains that the names you are seeing are not the filenames, but the location and/or position names. Also, neither a Web Page nor Web Journal is the same as a Web Gallery that can be set up with iWeb or MobileMe.
A gallery setup with iWeb, at least as published to MobileMe, will support download by actual filename. I have several that I once set up that confirm this.
Likewise, a gallery created with File/Share/MobileMe will support download by actual filename -- I just confirmed that. But of course, MobileMe is going away.
Ernie
Hmm, not sure what you mean here Ernie. A3 creates jpg files for its web galleries - a thumnail version and a larger preview version. They are jpg files, and they have names, and those filenames are of the sort 'picture-1.jpg, picture-2.jpg..' and 'thumb-1.jpg, thumb-2.jpg'. I understand that they are named as such beacuse of their position in the gallery, and that one could switch the position of the photos in the gallery and they would be renamed accordingly. And that, indeed, is the problem - that the files are renamed generically to match their position in the gallery instead of preserving their filenames.

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I dont know if this is still an issue seen as its kinda old but it yet to be answered
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