Karen,
I think it would work much better for you if you just published your web to a new folder on your computer, in effect making a copy of it, and using that to upload from. You will still have your original web folder and all of it's contents, and you will get an exact duplicate of your original web that you can publish from.
Linda
in Costa Rica
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/