that’s all they will be doing… but we’re doing all the other stuff. as in, we don’t want to give them control over many of the other long list of things they want because we’d spend hours setting it up and then you’d get one guy come in and screw it up because:
a) he’s the one who thinks he can do a better job and has already spent 12 months making a site while learning html and is under the impression that flashy .gifs are the bomb — so he’d think he was doing us a favour and then royally screw it up
b) he/she isn’t so bright and accidentally deletes something/enables something we don’t need because they think, hey wouldn’t this be nice, or
c) he/she is having a bad day with someone in the organization and then becomes a real jerk and either badmouths said person in an article or deletes all that person’s posts

i really don’t want to deal with all that. it’s more of a combination of smaller groups want one website (because on he whole they’re one organization) with their grouped together google calendar, and forums split off into their groups, and slideshows and so on, and the only thing they do is add the articles for their news, which would have to be approved because of c), and then we do all the static pages, the forum and so on. so wordpress isn’t our best option.

also, if all you’re doing is posting articles, have you considered wordpress? making a theme for wordpress is a breeze!