re: #209 wheat-dogg
Check this out. codex.wordpress.org
And this, too. premium.wpmudev.org
It looks like WP has an import function for LJ built in, but you need to create a WP blog first, either at wordpress.com or a self-hosted one. That way, you shouldn’t need to export to XML first.
WP does have an import function for LJ, and it does not work correctly (apparently LJ changed something some time ago and WP did not update to correct their import system for that - hence the Dummies guys work around for it.)