Just got a stern talking too from senior management today, for the late running of the web project. It's annoying because I've been saying the same thing to myself already. What makes it worse is that my core responsibility - the technology side (Linux/Perl/Apache), is all okay, it's getting approved words and pictures from marketing that is proving hard....
It's not quite the same problem, but Adam Schumacher's article over at A List Apart: Cheaper Over Better: Why Web Clients Settle for Less covers some of the problems, in my case "I can't invent content"...