After all my caterwauling about blogger, I decided to stay with them. I like Blogger's tools, and it is just so much simpler to move to their server and use their automated missing-files system to reference pictures and files that are still on the old web server hosted by Nerds. I'll likely begin to edit the older posts and re-post the pictures so they end up hosted on blogger's servers to reduce the impact on the Nerds' server. They are being very gracious through all of this. :)
Once you see this, the switch should be complete!