Hi t31os and charlieholder,
Thank you for your suggestions. I’m afraid that I’m too much of a neophyte to get into the DB. I did go to Dashboard, post, edit and see that the listings of categories looks ok. So this may be different then how I explained.
So…. looking at the Dashboard -> At a Glance -> Categories, I have 1314 listed. I then went to Dashboard -> Posts -> Categories. That lists all the backpacking-1, backpacking-2, backpacking-3, etc. Under that listing, I can only delete. It also shows 0 posts for each one listed.
I went back to my .com site and looked at dashboard->Posts->Categories. That lists only Backpacking once with 61 posts.
I do admire anyone who can understand the problem without viewing it on screen. Did I perhaps do something wrong during exporting?