marleyman - 3:36 pm on Aug 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

Sorry to sound so "newbie" Jim - especially since you're been so kind...

But the biggest hurdle I'm trying to figure out is, "removing" a large amount of old, outdated html pages from the site, without jepardizing the site's ranking.

Should I keep the old pages as they are on the server? Should I remove them from the server?

See the newly redesigned HMTL site will not include a ton of the older outdated html pages because we just have to have a managable smaller site - not 450 pages of old "crap".

I guess I need to trouble you to walk me thru Mod-rewrite on an Apace server because I'm not understanding how to do that or how it really works in my situation, where I'd have hundreds of old pages that I don't want to include on the newly designed site anymore - but am fearing the loss of searh engine ranking.

Do I need root access to accomplish Mod-Rewrite?

Thanks for your patience.
Marleyman