I don't want to get bogged down on tech issues now, but will look into these.
We all use the same software.
One big problem about switching is moving the database/archives. We could switch tomorrow if we wanted to start over. But there's a lot of good info in there that would also save a lot of dupe posts if we had a decent search engine.
We are working on using Google custom search for the site. We've tested it and finally anything on fhb.com shows up.