Rob,

My suggestion is to give up. Seriously. You are trying to convert Paper
publications to web pages and they will not work. Your best bet would be
to publish them as a pdf.

Five thousand pages is a lot!

Mike

The problem is that you are converting print documents to web
documents...two different mediums. In the conversion Publisher chokes on
some of the design methods you have used in your print documents. You can
not use word wrap around images in Publisher 2003 web publications as one
example. Also if you use non web friendly fonts, Publisher will convert
those fonts to images. Other examples would include columns, tabs, and other
print formatting techniques that simply don't convert to HTML well.

You do need to do your step one, and step 2. I would not use your second
step 2, Save as .htm. That will create unfiltered html output, and your file
size will be much larger and will take much longer to load.

If you really need to convert the print documents to html, you will have to
redesign your pages, in order to overcome the problems you have already
experienced and to make them "web page friendly". Alternatively, I would
suggest you consider converting your documents to PDF files, and uploading
and linking to them. Then the pages will look the same as your print
documents. If you do not have a PDF creator program, one freebie is
www.primopdf.com

DavidF

Is it possible to get this exported to meet some standard like W3C?

Nope.