Ok, I got through to step 4. The Electrum wallet I imported to shows the public keys (I think.. the first set of characters associated with the private keys I imported from Brainwallet) listed in Receive tab.
That is indeed your bitcoin addresses, which allow everyone (including yourself) to send bitcoin to.
However, the balance shows zero.
Could you double check the address balance on blockchain.info?
Enter the address on the site, and see if the balance is really zero.
IM guessing this will update after the Electrum wallet syncs with the network?
Electrum is a thin wallet, and users only need to download the block headers (around 20MB), and so the process should be really quick (unless your connection is very bad / slow)....
Then send to a new wallet?
I should use "newly generated address" instead.
It is for 2 reasons.
For the Electrum wallet, you can either backup the master seed (the 12 words you get when you first create a new wallet), or the wallet file.
Please note that your imported addresses cannot be recovered from the master seed.Another reason is for safety.
Everyone can spend the bitcoin on an address if they have the private key.
Though the site brainwallet.org is considered trusted and the code has been reviewed by many people, it is still possible that someone has "hijacked" the site right before you go to the site.
Even if you access the site as off-line, it could still send the private key to the bad guy when you get online. So, as a
precaution measure, you could send all the bitcoin out, and never use that address anymore in the future.
Thanks for taking the time to help out a newb
You are welcome