Thank you all for your input and I hope I've put a 'bug in the ear' so to speak and may have inspired some developmental interest as far as the ability to syndicate and all that yummy stuff.

FYI, for now, we're going to use LSQL for users to post articles and such and MoveableType to offer a limited number of authors their own blog accounts run on a separate domain. Ohh, to have a corporate R&D budget....such is life.

XML, RSS, Rtf, oh my...still looking-

Thanks!!