Site Portlet: Oracle Content Area

On the "Oracle Portal Navigator" page under the "Content Area" tab someone deleted the "Site" portlet. How do I add the "Site" portlet back to the page?
I clicked on the customize page and tried to find the portlet to add but it is not listed. I then went to the portlet repository to see if it was expired or something but it was not there. There is a "Content Areas" portlet that lets you select the a content area to go to but the navigate button takes you back to the "Oracle Portal Navigator" page to the "Content Area" tab.
The same thing happens when you go to the Admin section of a site and try to see the categories for that site. They point to "Oracle Portal Navigator" page showing the "Content Area" tab, which is no longer the site portlet.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance
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Simon,
the problem is with incorrect HTML generation. Do a 'View Source' of the CA.
After you manage to reformat the mangled HTML, you will find that there are quite a
few tags missing. e.g table rows start but there is no open row tag, there is not body close and html close tag (I could go on).
Netscape browsers are very strict and will trip on incorrect HTML generation. IE might be forgiving .
Another problem is multiple html,head and body tags. Each portlet in the page generates
html with these tags. multiple head tags can cause problems.
Quite a long laundry list. I just spent the better part of 2.5 hrs of my client trying to figure this out.

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