Transition plan: buh-bye Geocities. Hello real hosting & domain

Is this a practical or a flawed plan?

[TrailBum]

I'm finally gonna buy a domain and get real hosting but I want to make this transition the right way without losing ground in the engines. My geocities hobby site is 7 yrs old and ranks good for brand new & old content (plenty top 10). I have about 30 pages of mostly related content on Old site. Want to keep about 7 misc pages at Old site and still create misc new content there. These 23 other pages I would like to move over to the New Domain where any new topic related content will stay. I can NOT do any 301 redirects because I have no server control.

My transition plan is this:

1) New index from scratch
2) Post about 5 brand new original pages of content
3) Get a few backlinks from related pages
3) Let new site age for 3 months & work on new original content
4) After 3 months move over a few pages of less popular old content
5) Old site pages will have a "we have moved" message and link pointing to respective new page.
QUESTION ---> Is it a bad idea if an Old page points to a new page that would have the same title and same or similar content as before?
6) After moving content I will seek to have backlinks updated if possible.
7) New site will never link to Old site
8) Depending on how initial ranking goes maybe after 4-5 months I will move more important content (more engine traffic) over to New domain.
QUESTION ---> will it be bad that I will eventually have 23 pages that only have a we have moved" message and 23 differnt links to the places on the New site the content moved too? All my pages are PR 4 & 5.

[edited by: TrailBum at 3:03 am (utc) on Dec. 12, 2006]

[TrailBum]

Surely someone here has outgrown a free web host and has some experience to share. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Thanks!