*this doesn’t work with wordpress 3.0… im reprogramming now….
Something i find helpful when converting content from a non wordpress site, to a wordpress site is to convert the old content into an XML file, and import it into the new wordpress installation.
The tricky part is figuring out which parts of the XML structure need to be generated, and which can be skipped. I’ll say this for it, the actual way the lines break are important for importing meta field data.
Here is a copy of the file, I was using this inside of wordpress as a page template. When the page is opened, it write a page.xml file into the root directory. I had this reading from a database of sports products, and making a post for each product with meta data.
Download the souce .zip
After importing a bunch of meta data heavy content, this plugin is a much to optimize the default search
http://dancameron.org/wordpress/plugins/search-everything