Publishing site to folder

I am using IWeb to build individual sites for clients to view images of themselves. Each site is personal and has welcome pages as well as photo pages. It all looks and works great on my Mac, but when I publish it to a folder and burn it to a CD, window machines can not view the photos on the photo pages. I've disengaged he pop up that won't allow active material to work on a window computer, but the photo pages are still empty. When you click on slide show the slide show window comes up but the image thumbnails are not there nor are the slide presentation photos.
Is it a windows problem or is there something I need to do in I Web?
Hope someone can help!!
Hotfoot

wendyoffroad wrote:
I found the 'Domain' file in the 'Application Support' folder, but it doesn't contain my published sites.
iWeb's Domain files (of which you can have several) by design don't contain your published site's HTML. But if you double-click a Domain file, the site it represents should appear in iWeb for editing and publishing. (And publishing doesn't adversely affect the Domain file.)
Is it true that since I published my different sites to folders that there is no way to get them back into iWeb for editing and republishing?
+"...there is no way to import published pages back into iWeb. You can manually back up the Domain file, or use Backup to back it up."+ ...quoted from HERE. And it matters not whether the pages were published to a folder or to MobileMe (iDisk) ~ either way, you can't import published pages back into iWeb.

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