Good to hear, I am glad you perservered

I have never used either, but from a developer point of view Telerik (makers of Sitefinity) are excellent, telerik are from Bulgaria (Bulgarians are big on programming). I cant speak highly enough of them. I have done plenty of work on Telerik MVC Controls and have been very impressed,

Sitefinityis ASP.NET, where Word press is PHP, I do know that they are looking to move sitinfinity to ASP.NET MVC, MVC is superior to ASP.NET Webforms, and far superior to php. MVC is also very SEO friendly, it has a clean separation of concerns giving very clean html, no post backs or viewstate, Already they are using the MVC Routing engine that gives full control over urls, no messy file names or parameters, you can make your URL say whatever you want, it does not have to match your folders.

If you intend to further develop your site in the future, I would go with Telerik

The answer is one.

Alhouth I have seen Matt Cutts (Google) state they follow more then one, each hop including the first leaks juice, he also stated they do not keep following but did not give a number

Bing states one.

http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-redirection-response-results-in-another-redirection

http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-unnecessary-redirects

Try this in robots.txt, I did not think that Google allows wild cards but i just read that they do.

Disallow: /*mode=vote*

or

Disallow: /*mode=vote

or

Disallow: /*mode

Then try in Google WMT to read with googlebot to see if it works.

The first in the list seems right to me, but I have seen others do it the other ways.

When searching for site:mydomain.com i also asume that it is in order of rank, but i cant say i know that for a fact.

I would look at my internal linking

do all pages link back to home page, do they liink back to mydomain.com recommended or mydomain.com/default.htm

do you have a full sitemap on every page, I recommend not.

If every page links to every other page, this keeps link juice even on every page, when really you want to give your home page or landing pages prominence.

The best structure is flat, home page links to every page, and every page links back to home page and landing pages if you have them.

You should not use more than one H1

http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-multiple-h1-tags

Having said that, with HTML5 and the use of the

tag, It has been suggested you can use more then one if they are in different articles, but Bing or Google have not stated an opinion on this yet

It is hard to rank for multiple servies, but even harder for multi locations, but you seem to be doing the write thing, make a page for each target.