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I just took a look and it appears that you have resolved the problem.

The ID is an arbitrary sequence assigned when links are added to blogroll and can’t be changed without manipulating the MySQL table (not recommended).

The bookmarks can be sequenced by a number of fields as described here in the Codex
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_bookmarks. If one of the listed fields will work, you can include a call to the wp_list_bookmarks() with the sort sequence desired.

You’ll want to install WordPress in its own directory under your current site. See the Codex https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

Within your current site, you would then point the “blog” link to the subdirectory. Or you may want to look at using the iframe function to pull the blog into an existing page of your site (less elegant but a theme with no “decoration”) would look like it fits with the rest of your site pretty easily.

While there is no way to guarantee that this move will go perfectly, many WordPress blogs are already running on web hosts using PHP5 and MySQL5 (including my own blogs on Dreamhost)

Be sure that you have upgraded your third-party themes and plugins to the latest version. For the ones that are critical to your blog – you may want to contact the author to confirm that they have been tested under PHP5.

You’ll want to use FTP (or any functionality provided by Cpanel) to upload the plug-ins (unzipped) to the plugins folder (inside wp-content).

Once you have uploaded the plugins, you can go to the Plugins tab in your Admin interface to activate the plugins.

You can use the widgets functionality by going to the Presentation tab and going to the Widgets sub-tab (presuming your selected template supports widgets.)

This plugin provides AJAX functionality for the wp-calendar – your template (probably in your sidebar) needs to have the get_calendar() function in the code before it can do its magic.

I see from the plugin home page that the plugin may not work if your web host runs PHP as CGI. In addition, the plugin is relatively old so YMMV under the current WP releases.

The plugin author provides a comment section on his web site and may provide additional support.