I have the same problem with Netfirms. Love to know if anyone has a solution!
Re the permalinks I had the same problem but managed to fix it. The problem wasnt in the .htaccess file but in the permalink structure. I updated the default with the following:
/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
Now it works fine. Seems Netfirms at least needs the index.php to precede the rest of the structure.
I agree with you.
I saved the default RSS feed from my BLOGGER BETA site and then imported that to wordpress. Be sure to set your blogger feed output to FULL first.
This may be able to be done using the ATOM feed also, but havent tried that.
