Import from phpBB 2.0.19 with Able2Know SEO and eCardMAX HotEditor to vBulletin 3.5.4

[gengar56]

I've been using phpBB2 for years, but I've decided to bite the bullet and migrate to vBulletin. I have two major mods that will need to be transitioned somehow:

1) I have Able2Know.com's SEO mod installed, so all my URLs are in the form of /article###.html
More info: http://www.able2know.com/forums/about15132.html

2) I use the HotEditor rich text editor from eCardMAX.com, so some of my posts have HTML code in them, while others don't
More info: http://www.ecardmax.com/index.php?step=Hoteditor2phpbb

I also have a cash mod installed, but I'm ready to ditch that because it's complex and not really needed now that the forum is active and established.

So I seek help from you for concerns #1 and #2. The SEO mod uses .htaccess and a few PHP edits to several phpBB files. Is there a vBulletin equivalent? How would I transition my old URLs to avoid breaking anything, including SE rankings and inbound links?

For #2, I ran ImpEx and unfortunately the HTML didn't transfer. It's very non-standard, I think.

I want to make sure stylized posts are imported in a reasonable manner (not with tons of nonsense symbols all over them). For example, I'm looking at an imported post at the moment that looks like:

#ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#Hello there,#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#We need help in promoting our company site in Google.#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#We would like to hire a proffesional working on FreeLancer bases

I tried cleaner.php with these settings for $replacer:

"#ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#" => "",
"#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#" => "\n",

It went through all the posts, but looking at the actual posts now, it looks like it had absolutely no effect at all. The example post I showed above looks exactly, character-for-character, the same as before. Any suggestions?

By the way, that example post should end up looking like:

Hello there,
We need help in promoting our company site in Google.
We would like to hire a proffesional working on FreeLancer bases

(Yeah, there's no special formatting here.)

Got a fix I can try? Is there anything I'm missing?

Thank you!

[rogersnm]

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