Converting to Drupal

A while back, I looked at creating a site with Drupal (was either late 4.x or 5beta), and kept hitting roadblocks where it came to project management and the various modules available then.

Hello.

My web site has been online since 1997, originally as a showcase of lyrics to my original songs and essays on various subjects. Back in the day when HTML on static pages was all I knew about, I used some cute graphics on all my song pages and the comments pages to each song (related question coming up in a minute).

Later I added a site-wide navigation menu bar and bread crumb trails to every page of the site, but also kept the legacy graphics on the song and comments pages because of the atmosphere they give.

Example of song page with legacy graphics (bottom of page) and navigation bar / bread crumbs (top of page) at http://www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/songs/whatcani.htm

Example of such a page with the navigation bar / bread crumbs taken out but with the other stuff still there at http://www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/test/songs/whatcani.htm

In addition to the regular sitewide navigation menus and breadcrumbs generated by Drupal, can I (or rather, should I) keep these old but cute graphics on the pages and have navigation links underneath them too?

I'm about to move a pretty big site from typo3 to Drupal and I was wondering if anyone here had any experience with this?

Searching through the forum (and Google) turned up nothing, and Typo3 isn't covered in the migration handbook pages.

I know there is an import/export module, but before I go and break my neck, I thought I'd just ask here if anyone could share some tips or pointers?

I find myself converting an old MT 3.3 blog site to Drupal 5.5. The old blog had one page that was generated every weekday that was very large and almost the same every day (in fact, the change involved some commentary at the top of the post, and changing a bunch of URLs that had the current date in them, so images and tables would be pulled in for the current date -- for example "assets/charts/2008_02_08_somechart.png"). In MT, I ran a cron job to generate the post and stick it in MT's import directory, and I just told the blog owner to import that every day. I'm not sure if that was the best way, but it seemed to work well and it didn't involve me learning too much MT (we knew we were changing software eventually).

I have an existing site (www.tobaccoreviews.com) that I am in the process of converting to a Drupal installation. The original site is a homebrew Coldfusion application running on a MS Access database. I have a few questions for those who have gone through something similiar before:

I have mapped out all of the data fields from the old DB that I want to migrate to Drupal, so that I know what data is going where.

I have this site (www.wineryfinder.net). I want to convert all the information to Drupal.

Can anyone give any examples of how this is done?

What tables in drupal do I need to send my data to? How is my data going to be influenced by taxonomy and how can I take advantage of this when I'm uploading data?