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As already indicated, there is no harm in having your business listed on a directory, just don't do it for SEO purposes.
It can help when you are looking to increase cocitations (Yelp, Yell, at al) and to promote your business through niche sites is no problem either. Just tread carefully.
-Andy
That will teach me to skim read 
Perhaps trying a different 301 plugin will help? Alternatively, you can pretty much redirect anything from within .htaccess.
This page on Webmaster World might be worth reading.
-Andy
The hash tag means that the page wont be indexed by Google and therefore, carry no page rank. It is like it is invisible. Just launch the new pages because Google will have never seen the current ones.
-Andy
