Question on multiple repositories

[Max]

 I'm brand new at the CVS game and have no senior resource available at
work, so I'm hoping that I can get some help here.

 The specs I was handed at the office call for an open development
repository and a secure QA/production repository.  Once developers finish
their stuff, a baseline is made and the code is replicated to the QA
repository.  This is the step where I'm having a problem.

 I have the development repository up and running and made a QA repository,
which at this time is empty.  I set my CVSROOT to point the development,
check out based on a tag, then try get the code into the QA repository.
First I set my CVSROOT to point to the QA repository, then use "commit" to
move the code.  Alternatively, since there are no modules in the QA
repository, I try to use "add".  Both fail because I still appear to be
pointing to the development repository.

 I'm hesitant to use "import" because (as I understand it) this command will
club the previous versions under the same name (down the road).

 So the question I have is how do I move source from one repository to the
other?  Is there a way to save the baseline and the version numbers in the
process.

 Any help would be greatly appreciated.

                    Max