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New site plus no content equals no ranking. You will need a lot of anchor text to help rank the site. Read chapter 4 http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Hello and thank you for your quick response!  She'll be happy to hear it and I'll be sure to 301 each page from the migrated site to the new one. I appreciate your help!

Robert, thanks again for your patience and expertise.  I think I'm clearer now.  As long as these aren't considered duplicates, I'm happy.  Thanks for the tip on All In One SEO plugin to not index the archive pages.  I'll certainly get in there and do that. Right now, I"m just trying to identify the issues my client needs to address and not make too many changes to things until we've had the opportunity to go over them together. Your insight and instructions have been most helpful. Thank you!!!!