Sherry have you tried uploading via Direct FTP or another FTP program? Sometimes that works when the internal one has a bad day.
The review sounds confused. Visual Site Designer and the HTML Editor are two different programs. VSD doesn't have a HTML editor but the HTML Editor has a Visual Editor...but not the same features as VSD.
So either they were talking about two separate programs or they were talking about the HTML Editor and mistakenly called it Visual Site Designer.
I know you believe you understand what you think I said...but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not exactly what I meant.