Publish for Approval with .Mac

If anyone has used the new "Publish for Approval" AppleScript and has found a way to publish these pages to a .Mac account/web page, would you tell me how you did it. I have been waiting for something like this forever but dont want to have to leave my computer on all the time to run as a server for these pages.
What seems to be the issue is that it creates a web page from the Personal Web Sharing in Settings and uses your mac as a server, the only way people can get on is if your mac is active and allowing connections.
http://automator.us/aperture/publish/?sr=hotnews

I'm not the developer of this interesting looking package, but it doesn't look like it's something that will work with .Mac at all.
The web pages is creates rely on an application to be running on the machine that's serving the web page (which, as it's designed, would be your local Mac). This application needs to receive approvals from the web page events, and also needs to be on your machine so that it can use AppleScript to set the metadata in your Aperture library so that the approved pictures show up in the smart group. Neither of these are possible if the site is served on .Mac.
In theory, this could run on a remote machine, since AppleScript can target processes on remote machines. But to make it work, you'd still need the CGI application on the server, and you'd also need to open your Mac to allow remote AppleScript execution over the Internet (which gets into network setup, probably secure SSH tunnels, etc). Your Mac would also still need to be on, and allowing this connection, otherwise Aperture wouldn't be notified when someone approved pictures.
To make a short story long, it won't work with .Mac.

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    It looks like your webserver is not set up correctly. You might get better responses in the Networking and the Web forum - this is the Leopard Automator forum.

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