There are some standard trouble shooting steps in publishing snafu's...

- check firewall settings, privileges
- if behind a network, verify with network admin that you have ftp
privileges
- reboot your machine (you may have a hung connection)
- verify you have the correct FTP url from the host
- verify the procedure -
http://www.publishermvps.com/WebDesign/Version2003/tabid/33/Default.aspx
- see if you can connect to the server using an ftp client (i.e. wsftp le)
to determine if this is specific to Publisher
- if possible try in http
- delete the ftp location and create a new one
- if http then delete the network place and create a new one
- log in host control panel and verify file and directory permissions are
read/write
- is the issue before or after the login is prompted and/or accepted. when
after a successful login the likely increases that the issue is on the host
side and not on your end
- verify that you have no page in the web publication that has "hanging"
objects, an object that straddles the document area and the scratch area.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com