Warning: Loss of text when edited within iWeb

I am among the many who get the message "There was an error uploading to .mac" or the like.
Seems Apple doesn't even know all the reasons we get this error, but the advice has been "often it has loaded even though it says there was an error...check and see if it loaded after all."
Well, that's seemed to work for me, EXCEPT that after losing changes the third time, I realized it wasn't just me forgetting to Save. Seems it's imperative to edit text outside iWeb, and then paste it in. That way changes aren't lost due to the inexplicable errors while uploading, real or phantom.
Yes, any person reasonably sane would know to protect data by editing a stand-alone file, backing it up, etc. But hey, nothing wrong with a little minor tweaking that you could risk losing... which can end up substantive enough to still make you weep a little when it turns up lost, er, uh... doesn't turn up at all. *You can lose your changes, if you edit text in iWeb!*

Publishing errors have plagued every version of iWeb that I have owned. I found a work around for the earlier versions.... just ignor the pop up warning that iWeb has encountered a server error or whatever error message you get... just click 'ok' ..... then open Activity Monitor and wait till uploading finishes .... ie zero bytes sent in "Network" window. (make sure that you are not logged on in any other web apps like Skype that could be uploading or creating any activity)
Then close iWeb, find the domain.sites file in Library>Application Support>iWeb open the package and delete Prepublish.plist
That was a pain but it worked (most of the time)
Now in iWeb 08 the problems have become much more serious... and my work around does not work at all. In frustration I created a new user on my powerbook, I added a family pack to my .Mac account (my web sites are too large for a trial account to work) and I created a new .Mac id
I copied my domain.sites2 file to my public folder. I then logged into my new user account and moved the domain.sites2 file into the Library>Applications Support> iWeb folder and started iWeb.
Everything looked good the first time. I uploaded the site after making some edits to fix weird font size changes???? and formating problems that iWeb 08 had generated in the upgrade and publised all to .Mac. The site published ok the first time but I found a lot of links were missing for some reason. Then iWeb crashed. I was not worried and opened it again. What a mess! All my changes were gone..... worse than that... several generations of changes were gone! the iWeb site looked like one I had been working on about a day earlier and I had invested a lot of time in changes that WERE NOT SAVED... I save regularly because I know that iWeb will not save automatically when it publishes (why, why why?)
Digging deeper I found links that had changed randomly, and entire pages missing or blank. All the pages that I had duplicated and then moved into different sites had no content???? I tried this several times and always with the same result. It seems there is a problem with the code and iWeb cant save files with any consistency.... this is easily the worst bit of software that Apple have every authored in terms of debugging. The idea is fabulous and the old versions produced some great looking sites easily but the new iWeb 08 is a disaster.
Come on Apple, get your act together... it is not like you dont have the $ to deal with this kind of quality control issue. ..... oh and after mailing support via the Apple iWeb report form (yes they know there is a serious problem), NOTHING.... just an auto responder message.... get back to you in 48 hrs etc.... NOTHING.

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