Changing site from php to Mambo SEF - 301 redirecting

[MetroWeb]

I have searched the forums and can't find my specific problem. Surely others have had this situation.

I have a new website and I would like to redirect all the old pages to my new website's new pages.

My old website is built using php. My home page is domainname.com/index.php. My actual website content information is all located in a directory called "pages" and all the file names there end in .php (like breakfast.php)

My problem is:

My old website pages are called into the old site by domainname.com/index.php?p=breakfast (se friendly page name).

an example redirect that I tried but doesn't work is:

redirect301 /index.php?p=breakfast http://www.domainname.com/content/category/51/74/139/

this redirect only brings up my home page of www.domainname.com however in the address bar the address displayed is http://www.domainname.com/?p=breakfast.

I need it to bring up the actual page (not the home page) at http://www.domainname.com/content/category/51/74/139/ and that address be displayed in the address bar.

I have 96 pages that are called into the old website using the (domainname.com/index.php?p= ) call in system.

The (index.php?p=) system is really giving me a problem on my redirects. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I hope I have been clear on my descriptions.

Thanks in advance.

[schleppel]

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

# Redirect requests for /index.php?p=sef-name to mynewdomain.com/content/category/32/51/113/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)?p=sef-name(&.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(index\.php)?$ http://mynewdomain.com/content/category/32/51/113/? [R=301,L]