Joy - not sure I'd count it as a conversion if it left all the pictures and borders behind.

It is amazing there is no alternative to Publisher around, all the other page layout programs are expensive or pretty tacky. There is a open source one - scribus but I've never used it.

I recommend checking out the use of PDF as an intermediary format it will solve your printing problems and also give you the ability to produce a document others can read online or on their computer without requiring Publisher. With primopdf it doesn't cost you anything either.

Simon