Yet Another Publish to .Mac Error

Ok, got iWeb 08. Upgraded. Started it up. Updated my iWeb 06 created sites. Completed successfully.
I then go to publish. Click continue on the "make sure nothing you are uploading is copyrighted...blah, blah, blah." It uploads the sites. Everything is blue. Then iWeb states it will finish updating the sites in the background. Basically updating pictures movies, so on and so forth. Goes through each site and then at the very end after everything looks to be uploaded. Then suddently everything goes back to red and I get "Publish Error...There was an error updating .Mac." That's it nothing else.
I found this tech article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305954
Did what it said and still nothing. I'm connected to .Mac. Got the green little dot at the bottom of the screen. I can connect to the iDisk. I have tried to remove the previous sites from the iDisk but won't allow me to. Get permission errors if I remember correctly.
Has anyone else had this issue?

Hey David - welcome to the forums...
I had this error and the only fix I had was to redesign my entire website.
I'm hoping that I did that prematurely and that someone here will have and answer.
That said...
At the bottom of the iWeb app page (where the green light is) does it have a personal domain name attached to your email address?
I suggest you tell iWeb under FILE-Personal Domain (something) to turn it off. Will take you to another external website and so 'something'. Then restart iWeb and try publishing again.
That was one step I never tried in trying to fix my issues. It MIGHT help. You can always turn it back on later.
Good luck.
CaptM

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