Opening site built in MX 3.6 in MX 2004 7.0.1

I built my site in Dreamweaver MX version 3.6 and have just bought Dreamweaver
MX 2004 version 7.0.1.

When I open my site in this new Dreamweaver and click on text in my pages it
simply says the colour and font are the default ones. But I know they are not
as when I built the site in the older Dreamweaver they are Arial and White in
colour.

When I click on Modify Page Propertys, they are also set up as defaults, when
I know that they actually are not.

Is there any way I can get the new Dreamweaver to recognize all my font/colour
settings or has this been a waste of money for me?

Also, can anybody recommend a good Dreamweaver guru in England, UK?

Ok so let me get this straight you jumped from DW 3 to DW MX 2004 (aka DW 7).
Let me just say this before I go too much into your problem. This is not a
waste of money, the improved performance, stability and ease you will now
experience will be very beneficial to you once you start using the new version.
But keep in mind that you have not upgraded in 2 versions. So the process of
importing might not be as easy as someone who upgraded through 4 then 6 then 7
(there never was a 5 to my knowledge). So it would be like upgrading from
Office 95 and just now updating your documents to Office 2003, there is a big
difference in that many years so be patient.

If you changed settings within DW, ie: basically anything and everything
outside of site settings, you will have to replace them. All site settings
should have been transferred over when you exported your site then imported it
to the new version. Just a question for you, since you say you changed default
fonts and what not, can I ask why you changed DW defaults? The reason I ask is
that most people here will tell you that you should just forget about changing
the defaults again and just start using CSS documents to define your
colors/fonts and what not. For example you could do something like this in a
CSS document:

.defaultText {
color: #FFFFFF;
font-face: Arial;
}

Then when you make a page, just select the style from the style drop-down
(located on the bottom under the page you are editing) and select that style,
then all text gets converted to a white Arial. Then if you wanted to change
the color or anything later, you could just do that from the CSS document and
all your pages will automatically change.

Hopefully this has been of some help to you. If not feel free to post back
and we can try to work out any questions you might have.

Thanks for that and it was helpful. I figured out the first problem. I
basically trashed the prefs file and then opened it again, this time when I
defined the site all is okay. However, I do have one other small concern.

When I go to file/open, for some strange reason inside the root of my main
site there is a bunch of .html files that were not there before, things like:

TMP6rk059quhm.htm

There are 18 of these type files. I tried opening one and it was my main
index.htm home page file, but with graphics missing?

Any idea why these show up in Dreamweaver when I go to file/open, but they are
not there when I check via my hard drive and looking up the folder?

Cheers.

The files you are finding are temporary files. I can not imagine why they
would still be on your hard drive. The reason these files have empty images is
because all of them use the root for links (ie: instead of file.html for a link
you end up with file:///pathto/file.html). If you have the original files I
would just trash the temps.

Also the reason they are not showing up is because the temp files are probably
hidden (on Windows XP/2000 it is usually C:\Documents and
Settings\Username\Application Data\Macromedia, on Mac I am not quite sure). So
they are there, just not in the open for you to view without changing some
options around.

I'm using Mac OSX and I have noticed, again, in Dreamweaver only, that when I
go to file/open, there are not only these TMP files ending with .htm, but there
are loads of other files scattered all over my hard drive i.e.

.DS_Store
.hotfiles.btree
.vol
Desktop DB
Desktop VF
dev
mach_kernal
mach
mach.sym

This is most strange. As I said, I only see them from opening files within
Dreamweaver MX2004, not MX or not from the desktop?

Any ideas?

That's the first I have heard of this. All you are being shown is hidden files
which are hidden from the Finder unless you run a command in the terminal to
show hidden files to you. I haven't honestly seen that happen before and I do
use DW on both a Mac and PC. You might want to wait for someone who could have
come across this or consider contacting Macromedia as to why hidden files are
being shown because it shouldn't see them.