To redirect or not redirect?

[thecoalman]

I recently rebuilt a site from scratch and converted all the pages to php. Previous results for the top search strings were abysmal, the top search string wasn't even remotely related to the site.

I redirected all the former main pages using htaccess of which there was seven. The structure before was mysite.com/mainpage1.html, essentially every page was in the main directory. I redirected it to mysite.com/mainpage/index.php , the new content may vary slighlty to entirely different that the old pages.

As of right now everthing has a page rank of 0 but are still coming up in the serp's about where they were at before. This includes mysite.com/index.php which is redirected from mysite/index.html . What's interesting to note is if I remove the redirection it gives me a pr4 which is what the former page had.

These new pages have only been online for a month now, should I just leave everthing as is? Is it just a matter of time before the new pages get some pr?

Most importantly should I leave the redirect for mysite.com/index.php or remove it?