Publish Error whilst publishing to .Mac from iWeb

Hello.
I have suddenly started getting an error "Publish Error. An error occured whilst publishing file xxx" whilst trying to publish my website from within iWeb.
I have the latest version of iWeb (1.1.2). It used to work OK and I have made no recent changes other than to add a new photograph page. I have plenty of free space on .Mac.
I have tried the following:
- Publishing to Folder (this works fine)
- Deleting the offending file. I then get the error on another file.
- Deleting the domain file and the com.apple.iweb.plist files in ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb and ~/Library/Preferences. I then tried uploading a default site template and got the same error.
- Following the steps on http://karreth.com/iweb/22070571-B241-4C09-840B-288E0EC491F6.html. Same error.
- Creating a new user account and publishing a default iWeb template. Same error.
- Manually deleting all site and rss content from iDisk using Finder, then Publish All to .Mac. Same error.
So, it seems that the error is not related to my web content, nor is it related to my iWeb configuration files. I can connect to my iDisk using Finder without problems and browse the contents, so it is not an issue with .Mac either.
How can I fix this? The error message is useless and I can't find any more detail in the console logs.
Thanks,
Paul

Apnewbie's got a bunch of publishing error tips here:
http://web.mac.com/mark8heaton/iWeb/PublishErrorsHelp/
You might check and see if there isn't anything you haven't tried yet.

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i still getting publish error from iWeb.
Is apple fix this problem yet or they just ignoring it or dont know how to fix the problem?
anyways this is the error msg im getting everytime i click publish "An error occurred while publishing file “/Web/Sites/iWeb/"
i read almost all the discussions here about error on publishing to iWeb and it seems everyone have the same problem and no one can fix it.
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iWeb '08 publishes to the < Sites > folder.
iWeb '06 publishes to the < iWeb > folder.
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