Importing MOSS sites to WSS

Ok this gave me a headache for sometime as i initially thought it was a matter of entering a few stsadm.exe commands and ur done.
the main issue is the difference in features available in MOSS sites as compared to WSS sites.
if a site in moss is using certain features which are not available in wss then the import will generate fatal errors of missing features notably transmgmt.lib, data connection library (dcl) en others. so what way to go
after a couple of thoughts it narrowed down to opening the file in notepad and editing out some of the features which i had not deactivated earlier on before exporting the site from the moss platform. after all rumble jumble as some errors will keep reappearing then ur good to go with
stsadm -o import -filename [filepath] -url[http://server/site]

the import is gonna require an empty site created according to the language setting of the site you are importing. otherwise you will get errors related to differing site template Id #1 and #0
this is just an account of my daily work so it seems unclear let me know
cheers