Thanks for that Paul! Garland is a pretty sexy theme, even ported to wordpress. Hoping to do more on the theme once I get through the client workload ...

Module I use for formatting urls in Drupal is pathauto. Download here.

Once installed and enabled, go to: admin > site configuration > pauthauto and select: "node path settings"

Then enter the format (under "pattern for Blog entry paths")  you'd like to use, I use: [yyyy]/[mm]/[title]

Pathauto especially useful when upgrading blogs from other less powerful software while retaining the old link structure.

You have my number, give me a shout whenever ya need Drupal support/advice et al, happy to be the maven :)