Here's my follow-up...
I've ended up finding a combination of WP plugins to do perform the function I was hoping for. I'm using FeedWordPress for RSS syndication along with the_excerpt_reloaded for pagination. I only have two feeds added thus far, but it's seems to be testing quite well. I had to drop Gregarius since there really wasn't any form of pagination, which meant that there was no way to control post length. With the_excerpt_reloaded, I can limit post length and force readers to go to the feed's originating site in order to read the entire post. And bingo was its namo.
