Gerald,

To start with, you want to name your home page "index.htm", not
"Back-Benchers.htm". That is why you end up in your parent directory instead
of the site automatically loading. Also, it is unwise to post your email
addresses in a public newsgroup without munging it up. You are inviting lots
of spam.

Before you republish your site:

Go to Tools > Options > Web tab and untick the "Rely on VML..." and "Allow
PNG...".

If you don't want to reduce the size and optimize your images for the web in
a third party image editing application, then yes, you should be compressing
your images. "Compress graphics file sizes to create smaller Publisher Web
pages":
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011266301033.aspx

The right click, save as an image option is disabled in Publisher 2003 by
default. There is no way to change that. If you truly want the viewer to be
able to capture the images, then post back for workarounds.

Run the Design Checker under Tools to spot other possible design problems.

Delete your old files off your site before you upload your new HMTL files.

When you are ready to produce your new HTML files, then be sure to "Publish
to the Web" and not "Save as a Web Page", and as I said above, use the
default name of "index.htm" for your home page.

DavidF