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Thank you IssueTrak, Although we have been a member for a long time we just started being more active on the Q&A, more stars will come. Let us know how it works out.

I would redirect if you can as there may be duplicate content issues if you simply republish without them... I would also check that your content hasn't been copied by any external sites as well as we neglected this and lost rankings as Google thought we'd nicked the content when we redeveloped our websites. It all worked out OK in the end, we did the DMCA request, and sent letters to the people who copied us asking for removal but it was a pain in the proverbial - and entirely unnecessary if we'd have done this before we switched to a new site hierarchy.