Thanks to the sage advice to my question in thread 214069 above (Please Review My Directory Change Plan), I now have an operational installation under my root directory. I did it by copying - not moving -the contents of .../catalog/... to public_html. Made the changes in both configure.php files and everything works !

Now I would like to Redirect any inquiries from www.heirloomstocherish.com/catalog to www.heirloomstocherish.com. Do I add some code to a preexisting .htaccess file or do I create a new one? If I create a new one, where do I put it?

As of right now I have two functional installations, and desperately want to get down to only one, as the longer this goes the more the two installs will diverge with customer activity!

Thanks,
Phil