I am quite pleased to have been able to import all the posts from my old blog in one swell foop, thanks to a php script some kind soul put out for others to use. It took some trial and error and the help of cyber friends to figure out all the arcane doodling that needed to be done but in the end everything came out just fine. Maybe not perfect, but good enough for me.
If you hadn't been to the old blog (which had self-destroyed its own database and no one at my hosting company cared to help--I'll be switching host companies soon--they doubled their rates and hired techs who don't help you, go figure) have fun browsing all the old posts.