BrandSavvy, to move to production from a staging/development site you're easiest bet will be to get the staging site all setup as you wish then move the database (backup/restore) to the production database. You'll likely have to change afew things in DNN, but for the most part that should suffice.

You could also do an Export of your Publish data and Import that data into your production website using the import/export functionality within Publish.

I'll follow up on how our license treats staging/development instances versus production instances.

Basically as long as you aren't using the license on multiple production websites you're well within means of the license to use it on a staging/dev and production setup. Also, if you have the professional license that gives you the ability to use the module on any of your company sites, internal or external. If you have client sites using the module, they would need their own license as well.

That make sense?