Here's another way. If your web server allows htaccess files, you can put this in .htaccess at the root level:
Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.cushingonline.com/serendipity/

I don't know if there's an advantage to doing it this way or the other way -- can anybody shed some light on which way ...

In its current incarnation it won't, but I have written a plugin that takes allows for MT-compatible archives. Take a look at it--it should be extremely easy to adapt to your archive format. If you don't know how let me know and I'll do it for you :)


Tadpole,

I went and checked out your plugin ...

I am trying to set Serendipity as my home page, but I haven't had much luck

my paths are set as follows:
Full path: /home/<userid>/public_html/serendipity
Upload path: uploads/
Relative path: /serendipity/
Relative template path: templates/
Relative upload path: uploads/
URL to blog: http://www ...