Prevent iWeb from downsampling on publish

Hello,
I am trying to use iWeb (v9 - 3.0.1) to share photo's with others. However when publishing iWeb always seems to downsample my pictures. While my eyes can't directly see the difference the size of the published photo's is half to a third of the original size of the photo.
Optimize on import setting is not enabled and when publishing, the setting is also to allow to download the original.
Checking the domain.sites2, shows the original size photo is in there so I can only conclude it is when publishing that the 'unwanted' downsampling occurs.
According to apple support this should not happen but I wonder as I can't get it to publish the original size picture. Tried different tenplate, new account, fresh iLife 9 install, iWeb8(204), try on OSX 10.4.11. Unfortunately result is always the same, it's not the original picture anymore
Does anyone know of a hidden setting (via terminal?) that will prevent downsampling when publishing the iWeb photo pages ?
Kind regards,
AAAD,

When you publish pictures in a Photoalbum you can set the download size in the inspector > second icon from the left.
Pictures that are used as illustration are resized to the displayed size on he canvas when published, regardless of how large the original is. And the original is stored in the domain file.
If you want to share the really original size pictures, put them on the server yourself and create a link to these pictures.
And if you cannot see the difference, who else can when they have nothing to compare.
Tried different tenplate, new account, fresh iLife 9 install, iWeb8(204), try on OSX 10.4.11.
Try a clean install.

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