Chris_K

Author is already in the RSS feed in the <dc:creator> element. The folks using their own name are most likely deliberately ignoring or replacing it.

There are a lot of WordPress plugins out there that attempt to tackle the “anti copy” stuff. Some will simply add an author mention to the beginning or end of the post itself, which may prevent it from being overwritten by the copier. Have a search through http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ and let us know what you go with.

Yep, every word was english. Where’d I lose you?

(you might try a web search on “hotlink protection” and see if that helps you)

Check out some options in the docs section at Customizing_the_Read_More.

You skipped the part where you move the database data over as well.

Have a look at Moving_WordPress for a step-by-step approach to moving both files and data.

That’s your web host’s default index.html (or index.htm or default.html,etc.). Delete it. The only default document you want in your blog’s directory is the index.php that WordPress installed.

Apologies. I misread the question.

Do you think you’d be willing to share a link to the blog that you’re importing from?