Thanks for all the comments so far. I really did not expect the post would get on to the Newsletter but I guess there are other people in the same boat as me.

Here are a few more details to give everyone a better understanding of the situation. The site went live in September and though it was not that expensive to begin with, we are paying over $600/month for maintenance and access to the all the third party catalogs that make the site work. Getting a new site with similar features is going to cost us $20K just for the catalog access and then more for the website development and design and monthly fees for maintenance and catalog access. So we are trying to make the best out of the current situation until we found all the right vendors for all the services needed.
My thought was to use a second website just for content and landing pages and then use that site as part of the newly developed site once it is ready to go live (I do not see a point trying to battle with the current developer to have content and landing pages on the site if I cannot take my work with me to the new site). Until the new site is developed the "landing page/content site" would get indexed and hopefully aquire a better quality score and page rank. This would help to start the new site of at the end of the year if we use the same domain name as it really would not be seen as a new site.

After reading a lot of the postings here, I am just afraid that if I do not implement the "landing page site" correctly I will be seen as an affiliate page by Google and I would probably get slapped around a little more.

If you want some more precise information on the site please PM me and I will share a few more details with you.