keeping a previous redirect during a move from wordpress.com to wordpress.org

Hello,

I’m in the middle of moving my blog from wordpress.com to wordpress.org and encountering many trouble spots. I want to migrate my stats, but I discovered that now that I’ve moved most of the site to wordpress.org, the site on wordpress.com appears to be getting a normal flow of traffic to its initial address, which was thespectacleofexcess.wordpress.com. A number of months ago I paid for the domain change to thespectacleofexcess.com, before I decided to move to wordpress.org. I’m concerned about making sure the redirect sticks, or updating it through wordpress.org. I get a ton of search engine traffic based on the old redirect.

Thanks for your help!