MultiBlog Installation and Database Migration

Hiyas,

I’ve been playing around with WPMU 2.8.1 for a few months now. Trying to understand if what I need can be done.

I have multiple domains mapped to multiple directories in my public_html directory. What I want is to install WP into my public_html directory (or cgi-bin) such that this backend can control all of my domains mapped to subdirectories in the public_html directory. The MU version is not really designed to do that. It appears that the goal of the MU is to have multiple users within a given domain creat their own blogs. That’s not what I need.

I need a setup for multiple domains, with a single blog in each.

Do I need to install a separate WP for each domain?

Next, since MU doesn’t apparently provide me any benefit (pending answers to above), I want to use the WP instead. How are the databases different? Can I use a back-up of my WPMU database and expect the WP installation to make sense out of it?

Thanks!