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I agree.  Most of the articles that I have written have taken at least 8 hours.  Some have taken over a week with a photographer/artist helping me with images. I know that lots of people don't believe that we spend this much time and think that 20 minutes of yada yada text is going to be competitive.

Thanks for your comments, I will keep that in mind.

You can definitely define permalinks in Wordpress. Now there could be some other issues going on, but one of the easy thing about Wordpress (from an SEO-perspective) is defining those permalinks. I'm sure why everything's under /index.php/. It seems like something is not installed or set-up correctly. If something else, you'll need to set up 301 redirects from the old pages to the new ones. Yes, you'll lose some of your link juice and your URL structure as it is on the new site is not as strong.