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I agree with Richard, based on your explanation, this is the proper way to do the 301 redirects. Your plan will work just fine. GWT is Google Webmaster Tools

Thank you to everyone for all of your help and suggestions.  I guess this will be on the top of my 'to do list' switching from dynamic to static.  I already have some 301's in place from my site had a .php extension to the new extension now with ./?... etc.  Is it okay to re redirect them?  How many redirects are too many? Thank you so much! Sandra