Thanks for your help.
In the edit articles section there is a place at the bottom to specify the url for the article. When displayed on the site, the code generates a page for the article then there is another link to the full article (see what I mean here: http://enpointeshoes.com/pointe-shoes-a-2.html)
the link says "For more information, please visit this articles web page." and it is supposed to redirect to the permalink url I specified in the edit articles section (its like the last option in edit articles.) You can see when you mouse over the link to the web page it is trying to work but just gives up and redirects to the home page.
Ideally, I would like the articles to live only within the category structure I develop for the entire site and not use rewrites/redirects at all. I would prefer 'silo'-ing product pages and related information pages under one folder - like 'red-pointe-shoes/product-name-1.php' and 'red-pointe-shoes/types-of-red-pointe-shoes-article.php' Is there a better contribution for this purpose or maybe a way I can set it up to work like that?
Thanks
Molly