Preserving text in exported slices

Greetings from Sunny South Florida everyone, long time reader first time poster,
Im slicing a site up and exporting it to dream weaver and everything works fine but the text on the PSD, which are in their individual layers, get flatten in to the image when sliced and my client said they want the text as text on the final site not as an image.
Could you please help me out and point me somewhere or possibly answer this for me: I need the text in the psd , when sliced, to export into Dream Weaver as text.
Someone told me to copy the text from PS and paste it in Dream Weaver, sorry but thats not what im looking for.
Thanks in advance

when you say start over on a clean slate can you define what you mean cause thats proably
= create a set of nested tables from scratch in DW, where smaller tables sit inside a main table and each of the tables has a uniform column/ row division not using colspan/ rowspan attributes. Of course, tables are the legacy way of doing things, so if you want to be über-perfect, do it with DIVs, following the same analogy of separating content types by creating hierarchies of DIVs inside DIVs. For more specifics, stop by in the DW forum, there are some very knowledgeable people over there.
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heathrowe wrote:
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Michaela1
> I didn't mean that literally but in tutorials it says
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>
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>
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>
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