Hoosierglass,
I re-read your system of setting that up in the help.tpl and it looks like it also would have worked. I see that the files in the pages/US/ directory are html but the actual link to them points to something like
http://www.uscandleco.com/pages.php?pageid=6. If I point directly to the file like this
http://www.uscandleco.com/skin1/pages/US/fundraising.html then I lose all the extra stuff (links,header,footer,etc..) and only get the text. Obviously if I get CDSEO pro that would be taken care of but I was wondering if there was another way. I have been seeing a few people having issues with CDSEO pro and having to enter stuff (meta info) twice...I don't know if they just don't have it set up right or what but I was kind of holding off on upgrading. Do you know how to block all .php file except pages.php?... in a robots.txt file? I don't mind having those pages indexed as php urls instead of html but I'm blocking them at the moment.