issues were in permalinks and/or the fact that my WP and site URLs were different.
That seems to do it– when I open the file to view through the WP dashboard, it works, but when I click on my old bookmark it does not show up. Odd.
Actually, every time I log in the page goes blank. If I then go back to my original homepage I can get into site admin directly.
I got index.php figured out by deleting the .htaccess; but the pages still are not showing up.
Thanks; I was able to make a fix on the wp database to get back to the login.
Everything is there, but now on every time I click on one of the pages it says that it cannot find the index.php file.
Something is still not working right…