(however, using the old URLs would likely redirect to the newer style, were it implemented.)
It would be best if the redirects were 301 redirects too, I'm not sure how the Squid servers are set up, but it's pretty easy doing this in Squid (http://wiki.ehow.com/Implement-Redirects-in-Squid).
This will have an interesting effect on Google Page Rank too. Right now the current main page has a PR of 9, unless someone at Google speeds up the process, there'll probably be a delay in transferring the PR from the old URL to the new URLs, so for awhile the main page (and all the others) might appear to have a PR of 0, if it matters.
Travis
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